Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry: O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill - Couverture rigide

Blasing, Mutlu Konuk

 
9780521496070: Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry: O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521496071 ISBN 13 : 9780521496070
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern critical perspective, this study challenges the prevailing assumption that experimental forms signify political opposition while traditional forms are politically conservative. Such essentialist alignments of forms with extra-formal values, and the oppositional framework of innovation versus conservation that they yield, reflect modernist biases inappropriate for reading postwar poetry. Biasing defines postmodern poetry as a break with modernism's valorization of technique and its implicit collusion with technological progress. She shows that four major postwar poets - Frank O'Hara, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and James Merrill (two traditional and two experimental) - cannot be read as politically conservative because formally traditional or as culturally oppositional because formally experimental. All of these poets acknowledge that no one form is more natural than another, and no given form grants them a superior position for judging cultural and political arrangements. Their work plays an important cultural role precisely by revealing that meanings and values do not inhere in forms but are always and irreducibly rhetorical.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern critical perspective, this study challenges the prevailing assumption that experimental forms signify political opposition while traditional forms are politically conservative. Such essentialist alignments of forms with extra-formal values, and the oppositional framework of innovation versus conservation that they yield, reflect modernist biases inappropriate for reading postwar poetry. Biasing defines postmodern poetry as a break with modernism's valorization of technique and its implicit collusion with technological progress. She shows that four major postwar poets - Frank O'Hara, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and James Merrill (two traditional and two experimental) - cannot be read as politically conservative because formally traditional or as culturally oppositional because formally experimental. All of these poets acknowledge that no one form is more natural than another, and no given form grants them a superior position for judging cultural and political arrangements. Their work plays an important cultural role precisely by revealing that meanings and values do not inhere in forms but are always and irreducibly rhetorical.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521496071
ISBN 13 
9780521496070
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
236
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9780521106139: Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry: O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521106133 ISBN 13 :  9780521106139
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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