Poetic obligation ethics in experimental American poetry after 1945 /

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Main Author: Jenkins, Grant Matthew
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2008.
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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?