Reading the Modernist Long Poem

Reading the Modernist Long Poem
Author: Brendan C. Gillott
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501363794

How do readers approach the enigmatic and unnavigable modernist long poem? Taking as the form's exemplars the highly influential but critically contentious poetries of John Cage and Charles Olson, this book considers indeterminacy – the fundamental feature of the long poem – by way of its analogues in musicology, mycology, cybernetics and philosophy. It addresses features of these works that figure broadly in the long poem tradition, such as listing, typography, archives, mediation and mereology, while articulating how both poets broke with the longform poetic traditions of the early 1900s. Brendan C. Gillott argues for Cage's and Olson's centrality to these traditions – in developing, critiquing and innovating on the longform poetics of the past, their work revolutionized the longform poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Reading the Modernist Long Poem

Reading the Modernist Long Poem
Author: Brendan C. Gillott
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501363808

How do readers approach the enigmatic and unnavigable modernist long poem? Taking as the form's exemplars the highly influential but critically contentious poetries of John Cage and Charles Olson, this book considers indeterminacy – the fundamental feature of the long poem – by way of its analogues in musicology, mycology, cybernetics and philosophy. It addresses features of these works that figure broadly in the long poem tradition, such as listing, typography, archives, mediation and mereology, while articulating how both poets broke with the longform poetic traditions of the early 1900s. Brendan C. Gillott argues for Cage's and Olson's centrality to these traditions – in developing, critiquing and innovating on the longform poetics of the past, their work revolutionized the longform poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Reading Modernist Poetry

Reading Modernist Poetry
Author: Michael H. Whitworth
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2010-02-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781444320763

This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and intimidating. Provides close examinations of key poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and others Considers key techniques employed to orient and disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusion Explores the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist poetry Places modernist poetry in relation to its Victorian and Romantic predecessors Encourages readers to engage with the texts and make their own interpretations, moving away from the question of what the poem says in favour of considering the effect of the poem on its reader

Poetic Salvage

Poetic Salvage
Author: Tara Prescott
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1611488133

Mina Loy—poet, artist, exile, and luminary—was a prominent and admired figure in the art and literary circles of Paris, Florence, and New York in the early years of the twentieth century. But over time, she gradually receded from public consciousness and her poetry went out of print. As part of the movement to introduce the work of this cryptic poet to modern audiences, Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy provides new and detailed explications of Loy’s most redolent poems. This book helps readers gain a better understanding of the body of Loy’s work as a whole by offering compelling close readings that uncover the source materials that inspired Loy’s poetry, including modern artwork, Baedekertravel guides, and even long-forgotten cultural venues. Helpfully keyed to the contents of Loy’s Lost Lunar Baedeker, edited by Roger Conover, this book is an essential aid for new readers and scholars alike. Mina Loy forged a legacy worthy of serious consideration—through a practice best understood as salvage work, of reclaiming what has been so long obscured. Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy dives deep to bring hidden treasures to the surface.

Readings in the Cantos: Volume I

Readings in the Cantos: Volume I
Author: Richard Parker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1942954409

This book will be required reading for any serious Pound scholar but also for those who work in the area of modernist poetry. Many of the book' s contributors (and its editor) are affiliated with the Ezra Pound Society, which will provide a built-in audience and mechanism for promoting the work. Although the book will be of interest to any library containing a copy of Pound' s Cantos, it will also be attractive to individual scholars who may not want to wade through the considerable scholarship but are looking for entry into specific cantos

The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem

The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem
Author: Oliver Tearle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-04-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350027022

The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem explores how cultural responses to the trauma of the First World War found expression in the form of the modernist long poem. Beginning with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Oliver Tearle reads that most famous example of the genre in comparison with lesser known long poems, such as Hope Mirrlees's Paris: A Poem, Richard Aldington's A Fool I' the Forest and Nancy Cunard's Parallax. As well as presenting a new history of this neglected genre, the book examines the ways in which the modernist long poem represented the seminal literary form for grappling with the crises of European modernity in the wake of World War I.

The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole

The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole
Author: Brian McHale
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

A smart, eclectic analysis of nine long poems written by postmodernist poets Addressing subjects as wide-ranging as angelology, the court masque, pop art, caricature, the cult of the ruin, hip-hop, Spense''s Irish policy, and the aesthetics of silence, Brian McHale pulls varied threads together to identify a repertoire of postmodernist elements characteristic of the long poems he examines. As critic Jed Rasula explains, "McHale is wonderfully resourceful in changing the subject from chapter to chapter to fit the poems discussed, and while his approach adheres to the conventions of textual exegesis, the chapters really shine as orchestrations of issues. For instance, James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover works unexpectedly well in raising the subject of found poetry and procedural composition; Melvin Tolso''s Harlem Gallery and Edward Dorn's Gunslinger are effectively paired to demonstrate the period flavor of pastiche; Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns and Armand Schwerner's The Tablets explode the modernist fixation with depth; John Ashbery's work is given a nuanced reading as proto-theory; Letter to an Imaginary Friend by Thomas McGrath provides a lucid backdrop to raise the question of political efficacy in approaching language poet Bruce Andrews; and Susan Howe's The Europe of Trusts is explored for its intertextual tapestry." McHale shows how elements from these long poems overlap, interfere, pull in different directions, jar against, and even contradict each other; and he demonstrates how they also echo, amplify, and reinforce each other. They do not slot smoothly together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, but they do form (what else?) a difficult whole.

Theory into Practice: A Reader in Modern Literary Criticism

Theory into Practice: A Reader in Modern Literary Criticism
Author: Ryan Johnson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1992-08-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349222445

Students of literary theory have been well provided for by the publication of various Readers in literary theory. However, the relation between theory and critical practice still presents a problem to the general reader. This book brings together essays by major critics which apply theory to practice in an accessible way. This will help a general literary readership gain a better understanding of the various types of theoretical criticism, see theory being applied to practice powerfully and persuasively, and encourage students to use theory in their own critical writing.

Anthology of Modern American Poetry

Anthology of Modern American Poetry
Author: Cary Nelson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1249
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780195122701

Bringing together over 100 years of creative and vital American poetry in one volume, Anthology of Modern American Poetry includes over 750 poems by 161 American poets ranging from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie. It represents not only the traditionally familiar poetic works of the last hundred years but also includes numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. It is also the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poetic sequences.

ABC of Reading

ABC of Reading
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1960
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780811201513

Ezra Pound's classic book about the meaning of literature.