Affect, psychoanalysis, and American poetry : this feeling of exaltation / John Steen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steen, John (John W.), author.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in critical poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Affect (Psychology) in literature.

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

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

Emotions in literature.

Poetry--Psychological aspects.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages).

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

Summary:

"Poetry has often been defined by its closure, its condensation of meaning and value into discrete, self-referential textual objects. Affect, Psychoanalysis and American Poetry challenges the dominant metaphor of poetic containers by turning to recent poetic texts that represent the contagious and uncontainable feelings of anxiety, grief, shame, and rage. From modernists Wallace Stevens to mid-century poets Randall Jarrell, Robert Creeley and Ted Berrigan, and finally to contemporary practitioners Aaron Kunin and Claudia Rankine, John Steen argues that new poetic techniques arise from the poetic productivity of negative affects, and that a new model of poetic value can be found in poems that are - instead of containers - permeable, social spaces of intimacy, attachment, and withdrawal. Drawing from object relations, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and affect theory, Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry finds poetry's singularity in its unique capacity to represent anew the transmissible, relational, and uncontainable valences of feeling that structure and destabilize social life"-- Provided by publisher."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

Anxiety's holding: Wallace Stevens' poetry of the nerves

Threshold poetics: Stevens and W. Winnicott's "not-communicating"

Randall Jarrell's beards

Mourning the elegy: Robert Creeley's "mother's photograph"

Ted Berrigan's reparations

Aaron Kunin's line of shame

This feeling of time: Claudia Rankine's Citizen.

Notes:

"BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781350021563

1350021563

9781350021532

1350021539

OCLC:

1035259202