Poetry on & off the page : essays for emergent occasions

Author(s)

• Perloff, Marjorie

Bibliographic Information

Poetry on & off the page : essays for emergent occasions

Marjorie Perloff

（Avant-garde and modernism studies）

Northwestern University Press, 1998

• : pbk

Other Title

Poetry on and off the page

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

These essays share as their theme the reconsideration of the role of historical and cultural change in the evolution of 20th-century poetry and poetics. Perloff first looks at broad theoretical concerns - the evolution and contradictions of the term ""postmodernism""; the vexed relation of modernism to the primitivism ostensible inherent in it; the large-scale transformation of free verse; and the reception of poetry and poetics in the contemporary press and its cyberspace future. From this theoretical framework she then addresses individual cases - the difficult poetic language of Mina Loy; the relation of poetry and politics as exhibited by Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan; the mimetic nature of photography as understood by Roland Barthes and Christian Boltanski; the special accomplishments of John Cag's ""Mesostic"" art.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA36500155
• ISBN:
  • 0810115603
  • 0810115611
• LCCN: 97050432
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Evanston, Ill.
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 376 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS323.5
  • DC21 : 811/.509
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
  • LCSH : American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Experimental poetry, American -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Modernism (Literature) -- United States
  • LCSH : Poetics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA28597661