Fieldworks : from place to site in postwar poetics / Lytle Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Lytle.

Series:

Modern & Contemporary Poetics

Modern and contemporary poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Setting (Literature).

Poetics--History--20th century.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fieldworks offers a historical account of the social, rhetorical, and material attempts to ground art and poetry in the physicality of a site.Arguing that place-oriented inquiries allowed poets and artists to develop new, experimental models of historiography and ethnography, Lytle Shaw draws out the shifting terms of this practice from World War II to the present through a series of illuminating case studies. Beginning with the alternate national genealogies unearthed by William Carlos Williams in Paterson and Charles Olson in Gloucester, Shaw demonstrates how

Contents:

Introduction: the penning of the field

Boring location: from place to site in Williams and Smithson

Olson's archives: fieldwork in new American poetry

Everyday archaic: the space of ethnopoetics

Baraka's Newark: performing the black arts

Nonsite Bolinas: presence in the poets' polis

Smithson's "Judd": androids in the expanded field

Smithson's prose: the grounds of genre

Faulting description: Mayer, Coolidge, and the site of scientific authority

Docents of discourse: the logic of dispersed sites

Afterword: measuring sites, unbinding measures.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8643-2

OCLC:

843200972