Destructive Poetics : Heidegger and Modern American Poetry / Paul A. Bové.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bové, Paul A., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1980]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Presents a critical destruction of the 'New Criticism' of modern poetry and a destructive reading of the poetry of Whitman, Stevens, and Olson. Also includes an analysis of how modern and postmodern poetry destroys the notion of 'tradition' in the sense of a set of interrelations among texts, and how that destruction should affect criticism of modern and postmodern poetry.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

One: Literary History and Literary Interpretation: Toward a Theory of Poetic Destruction

Two: Heidegger's Phenomenological Destruction: A Theory of Poetic Interpretation

Three: Cleanth Brooks and Modern Irony: A Kierkegaardian Critique

Four: Leaves of Grass and the Center: Free Play or Transcendence

Five: Fiction, Risk, and Deconstruction: The Poetry of Wallace Stevens

Six: The Particularities of Tradition: History and Locale in The Maximus Poems

Notes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780231880756

0231880758

OCLC:

1100428715