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Robert Duncan and the Pragmatist Sublime / James Maynard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maynard, James, 1974- author.
- Series:
- Recencies series: research and recovery in twentieth-century American poetics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988--Criticism and interpretation.
- Duncan, Robert.
- Sublime, The, in literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This study examines the theoretical underpinnings of Robert Duncan's poetry and poetics. The author's overriding concern is Duncan's understanding of excess in relation to poetry and the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, William James, and John Dewey.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- The pragmatist sublime
- "Seas of desire": Duncan and surrealism 1939-1941
- Extending the field: Whitehead and the poetics of organism
- The plurality of "what is": the poetics and politics of Duncan's multiphasic sublime
- Architect of excess.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780826358905
- 082635890X
- OCLC:
- 988171890
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