Huntsperger Procedural Form in Postmodern American Poetry

Berrigan, Antin, Silliman, and Hejinian
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-10610-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 195 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

This book explores the political significance of formal experimentation in American poetry written during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. It focuses on the use of procedural forms, which involve the invention of rules or methods designed to structure the production of a poem's content.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huntsperger, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A Social Reading of Postmodern Poetic Form Procedural Form: An Overview Making Poems: The 'method' of Ted Berrigan's Sonnets The Tactics of the Text: Experimental Form in David Antin's 'Novel Poem' 'A new content': Procedural Form and Concrete Reality in Ron Silliman's Tjanting Objectivist Form and Feminist Materialism in Lyn Hejinian's My Life Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

DAVID W. HUNTSPERGER, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington, USA.