Poetic obligation [electronic resource] : ethics in experimental American poetry after 1945 / G. Matthew Jenkins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2008.Description: xv, 263 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 811/.5409 22
LOC classification:
  • PS325 .J46 2008eb
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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?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-258) and index.

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?

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