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Reading at the limits of poetic form : dematerialization in Adorno, Blanchot, and Celan / Jacob McGuinn.
Van Pelt Library PN1270.5 .M34 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGuinn, Jacob, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969--Criticism and interpretation.
- Adorno, Theodor W.
- Blanchot, Maurice--Criticism and interpretation.
- Blanchot, Maurice.
- Celan, Paul--Criticism and interpretation.
- Celan, Paul.
- Poetry, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Poetry, Modern.
- Materialism in literature.
- Poetics.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 251 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Pushing the boundaries of critical reading and the role of objects in literature"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Poetry, Criticism, and Indeterminacy
- Chapter 1. Reading Indeterminacy: From Poetic Materiality to Materialist Aesthetics
- Chapter 2. After Communication: Neutrality, Fragmentation, and Literary Politics in the 1960s
- Chapter 3. Disastrous Materiality: Neutrality and the "Impossible Real" in Blanchot's Fragmentary Writing
- Chapter 4. Progressive Impossibility: Reading the Art Object in Adorno
- Chapter 5. Something in Poetry: Reading Poetry's Material-Immaterial
- Chapter 6. The Figure of Snow: Elegiac Reading
- Conclusion. Legibility at the Limits of Materiality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780810146990
- 0810146991
- 9780810146983
- 0810146983
- OCLC:
- 1411220246
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