The Poetics of Waste

Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith
2014. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-48682-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 286 g

Reihe: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schmidt, C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: The Charisma of Waste Introduction: The Poetics of Waste Management 1. Industry and Excess in Gertrude Stein 2. The Queer Nature of Waste in John Ashbery's The Vermont Notebook 3. 'Baby, I am the garbage': Camp Recuperation in James Schuyler 4. Kenneth Goldsmith's Queer Appropriations Afterward: Poetry, Waste, and the Body Politic

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Schmidt is Assistant Professor of English at The City University of New York, LaGuardia, USA.