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Author Golston, Michael

Title Poetic machinations : allegory, surrealism, and postmodern poetic form / Michael Golston
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (266 pages)
Contents ""Table of Contents ""; ""Polemical Preface ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Etymologies, 1980�the Allegorical Moment""; ""1. Entomologies: Louis Zukofsky and Lorine Niedecker""; ""2. Epistemologies: Clark Coolidge""; ""3. A=L=L=E=G=O=R=I=E=S: Peter Inman, Myung Mi Kim, Lyn Hejinian""; ""4. Semiologies: Susan Howe ""; ""5. Fictocritical Postlude: The Melancholy of Conceptualism""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""
Summary The shape, lineation, and prosody of postmodern poems are extravagantly inventive, imbuing their form with as much meaning as their content. Through a survey of American poetry and poetics from the end of World War II to the present, Michael Golston traces the proliferation of these experiments to a growing fascination with allegory in philosophy, linguistics, critical theory, and aesthetics, introducing new strategies for reading American poetry while embedding its formal innovations within the history of intellectual thought. Beginning with Walter Benjamin's explicit understanding of Surrea
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 6, 2015)
Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Allegory.
Surrealism (Literature)
Poetics.
Surrealist.
allegories (literary works)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Allegory
American poetry
Poetics
Surrealism (Literature)
English.
Languages & Literatures.
American Literature.
Genre/Form Surrealism (Literature)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014045626
ISBN 9780231538633
0231538634