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Author Jenkins, Grant Matthew.

Title Poetic obligation [electronic resource] : ethics in experimental American poetry after 1945 / G. Matthew Jenkins.

Imprint Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2008.

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Description xv, 263 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-258) and index.
Contents Introduction: The double-double turn -- pt. 1. Objectivist poethics -- Saying obligations: George Oppen's Of being numerous -- A phenomenology of judgment: Charles Reznikoff's Holocaust -- pt. 2. Excess and eros. The ethics of excess: Edward Dorn's Gunslinger -- The body ethical: Robert Duncan's Passages -- pt. 3. An ethics of sexual alterity. The nearnes sof poetry: Susan Howe's The nonconformist's memorial -- Permeable ethics: Lyn Hejinian's The cell -- Conclusion: What difference does poetic obligation make?
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Experimental poetry, American -- History and criticism.
Ethics in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781587296352
1587296357

 
    
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