The darkness of the present : poetics, anachronism, and the anomaly / Steve McCaffery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCaffery, Steve.

Series:

Modern and contemporary poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

Physical Description:

viii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2012]

Summary:

The Darkness of the Present includes essays that collectively investigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the "contemporary" in the field of poetics. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Cacophony, Abstraction, and Potentiality: The Fate of the Dada Sound Poem 11

2 Corrosive Poetics: The Relief Composition of Ronald Johnson's Radi os 25

3 Interpretation and the Limit Text: An Approach to Jackson Mac Low's Words nd Ends from Ez 41

4 Transcoherence and Deletion: The Mesostic Writings of John Cage 51

5 A Chapter of Accidents: Disfiguration and the Marbled Page in Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 63

6 From Muse to Mousepad: Informatics and the Avant-Garde 75

7 Parapoetics and the Architectural Leap 95

8 "To Lose One's Way" (For Snails and Nomads): The Radical Labyrinths of Constant and Arakawa and Gins 115

9 Difficult Harmony: The Picturesque Detail in Gilpin, Price, and Clark Coolidge's Space 149

10 The 'Pataphysics of Auschwitz 167

11 The Instrumental Nightingale: Some Counter-Musical Inflections in Poetry from Gray to Celan 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780817357337

0817357335

9780817386429

0817386424

OCLC:

790270783