Holding Patterns: Temporary Poetics in Contemporary Poetry - Couverture rigide

McGuiness, Daniel Matthew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 079144953X ISBN 13 : 9780791449530

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2001

Synopsis

Holding Patterns provides a sympathetic criticism of poems, one that avoids the appliance of criticism and that self-consciously persists in close readings of texts as the directing force of its argument. Presently, contemporary literary criticism and contemporary poetry in America seem at cross-purposes. Indeed, current literary critics seldom address the poems of their contemporaries. While structuralists and other schools of critics seek terms, generalizations, and whole systems to account for and to understand poems, poets themselves repeatedly assert that each poem has its own poetic and that no system applies to their writing. This book reads poems by contemporary poets, such as Jorie Graham, Charles Wright, Denis Johnson, and Amy Clampitt, not to illuminate a theory but to shed light on the poem.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daniel McGuiness is Associate Professor of Writing at Loyola College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 079144953X
• ISBN 13: 9780791449530
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 182
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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