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

Blasing, Mutlu Konuk

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521496071 ISBN 13 : 9780521496070

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This study challenges the prevailing assumption that experimental forms of post-World War II poetry signify political opposition while traditional forms are politically conservative.

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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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521496071
• ISBN 13: 9780521496070
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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