Poetry and language writing

Poetry and language writing: objective and surreal

by Arnold, David

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"It has been variously labelled 'Language Poetry', Language Writing', 'L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing' (after the magazine that ran from 1978 to 1981), and 'language-centred writing'. It has been variously defined as non-referential or of diminished reference, as textual poetry or a critique of expressivism, as a reaction against the 'workshop' poetry enshrined in creative writing departments across the United States. It has been variously described as non-academic, theory conscious, avant-garde, post…

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  • Full title :Poetry and language writing : objective and surreal / David Arnold.

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"It has been variously labelled 'Language Poetry', Language Writing', 'L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing' (after the magazine that ran from 1978 to 1981), and 'language-centred writing'. It has been variously defined as non-referential or of diminished reference, as textual poetry or a critique of expressivism, as a reaction against the 'workshop' poetry enshrined in creative writing departments across the United States. It has been variously described as non-academic, theory conscious, avant-garde, post-modern, and oppositional. It has been placed according to its geographical positions, on East or West coasts; its venues in small magazines, independent presses and performance spaces, and its descent from historical precursors, be they the Objectivists, the composers-by-field of the Black Mountain School, the Russian Constructivists or American modernism a la William Carlos Williams and Gertrude Stein. Indeed, one of the few statements that can be made about it with little qualification is that 'it' has both fostered and endured a crisis in representation more or less since it first became visible in the 1970s."--Jacket

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2007.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:xiii, 200 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781846311154, 1846311152
  • oclc:ocn154689971
  • LC Classification:PS325
  • Dewey Decimal:811.009

Table of Contents

The scholarly life of language writing. --Surrealism: an excommunicated vessel? --Under the sign of negation: William Carlos Williams and Surrealism. --The Surreal-O-bjectivist nexus. --Michael Palmer's poetics of witness. -- Scorch and scan: the writing of Susan Howe. --'Just rehashed Surrealism'? the writing of Barrett Watten.

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Subjects

American poetry American poetry -- History and criticis… Amerikansk experimentell poesi Criticism, interpretation, etc Englisch Geschichte 1930-1990 Language and languages in literature Language poetry Language poetry (Mouvement littéraire) Lyrik Poésie américaine -- Histoire et critiq… Poetry, Modern Poetry, Modern -- History and criticism… Sprache Surrealism (Literature) Surréalisme (littérature) Surrealismus Surrealist

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Arnold, David

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