The poethical wager / Joan Retallack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Retallack, Joan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and literature.

Women in literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature and morals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In these highly inventive essays, Joan Retallack, acclaimed poet and essayist, conveys her unique post-utopian vision as she explores the relationship between art and life in today's chaotic world. In the tradition of the essay as complex humanist exploration, she engages ideas from across history: Aristotle's definition of happiness, Epicurus's swerve into unpredictable possibility, Montaigne's essays as an instrument of self-invention, John Cage's redefinition of Silence. Within her unifying rubric of poethics, Retallack gives the reader plenty of surprises with a wonderful range of examples

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Essay as Wager; The Poethical Wager; Wager as Essay; Blue Notes on the Know Ledge; Poethics of the Improbable: Rosmarie Waldrop and the Uses of Form; The Experimental Feminine; The Scarlet Aitch: Twenty-Six Notes on the Experimental Feminine; :RE:THINKING:LITERARY:FEMINISM: (three essays onto shaky grounds); The Difficulties of Gertrude Stein, I & II; Four on Cage; Geometries of Attention; Fig. 1, Ground Zero, Fig. 2: John Cage-May 18, 2005; Poethics of a Complex Realism; UNCAGED WORDS: John Cage in Dialogue with Chance; Notes; Bibliography

Acknowledgments of PermissionsIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-76239-7

9786612762390

0-520-93523-3

1-59734-811-2

OCLC:

475927121