American hybrid poetics : gender, mass culture, and form / Amy Moorman Robbins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robbins, Amy Moorman, 1970- author.

Series:

The American Literatures Initiative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Poetics.

Aesthetics in literature.

Cultural fusion in literature.

Women and literature--United States.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

American Hybrid Poetics explores the ways in which hybrid poetics-a playful mixing of disparate formal and aesthetic strategies-have been the driving force in the work of a historically and culturally diverse group of women poets who are part of a robust tradition in contesting the dominant cultural order. Amy Moorman Robbins examines the ways in which five poets-Gertrude Stein, Laura Mullen, Alice Notley, Harryette Mullen, and Claudia Rankine-use hybridity as an implicitly political strategy to interrupt mainstream American language, literary genres, and visual culture, and expose the ways in which mass culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has had a powerfully standardizing impact on the collective American imagination. By forcing encounters between incompatible traditions-consumer culture with the avant-garde, low culture forms with experimental poetics, prose poetry with linguistic subversiveness-these poets bring together radically competing ideologies and highlight their implications for lived experience. Robbins argues that it is precisely because these poets have mixed forms that their work has gone largely unnoticed by leading members and critics in experimental poetry circles.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Gertrude Stein's Blood on the Dining-Room Floor: Hybrid Poetics in Modernist/Mass Culture

2. Laura Mullen's Murmur: Crime Fiction, Cruel Optimism, and a Hybrid Poetics of Affect

3. Alice Notley's Disobedience: The Postmodern Subject, Paranoia, and a New Poetics of Noir

4. Harryette Mullen's Poetics in Prose: A Return to the Modernist Hybrid

5. Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely: A Lyrical Long Poem in a Post-Language Age

Notes

Index

About the author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8135-6466-2

OCLC:

889644715