Poetic obligation : ethics in experimental American poetry after 1945

Poetic obligation : ethics in experimental American poetry after 1945 / G. Matthew Jenkins.

Since at least the time of Plato's Republic, the relationship between poetry and ethics has been troubled. Through the prism of what has been called the "new" ethical criticism, inspired by the work of Emmanuel Levinas, G. Matthew Jenkins considers the works of Objectivists, Black Mou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jenkins, Grant Matthew
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Geschichte 1945-2008.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Experimental poetry, American > History and criticism.
Ethics in literature.
POETRY > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American poetry
Ethics in literature
Experimental poetry, American
Experimentelle Lyrik
Verantwortung > Motiv
Ethik > Motiv
Lyrik > amerikanische > Geschichte 20. Jh.
Experimentelle Literatur > amerikanische > Geschichte 20. Jh.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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?

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