Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles Altieri believes they ultima…
Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles Altieri believes they ultima…
Inciting poetics: thinking and writing poetry
by Altieri, Charles, DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, Dowling, Sarah, Frost, Elisabeth A., (Elisabeth Ann), Hejinian, Lyn, Hogue, Cynthia, Mackey, Nathaniel, Nielsen, Aldon Lynn, Place, Vanessa, Reed, Brian M., Schwartz, Leonard, Silliman, Ronald
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The essays in Inciting poetics provide a variety of provocative answers to the book's opening question, "What are the poetics now?" Authored by some of the most important contemporary poets and critics, the essays present new theoretical and practical approaches to poetry and po…
This brilliant, penetrating, and ambitious book by a well-known literary theorist studies the complex relationship between the emotions on the one side and literary works and paintings on the other. A central aim of Charles Altieri's is to rescue our understanding of the affects…
Deconstruction and the visual arts: art, media and architecture
by Derrida, Jacques, Bal, Mieke, Wigley, Mark, Rapaport, Herman, Melville, Stephen, Ropars-Wuilleumier, Marie Claire, Ulmer, Gregory L., Rodowick, David Norman, Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude, Preziosi, Donald, Altieri, Charles, Leavey, John P., Bloomer, Jennifer, Oswald, Laura R., Ingham, John M., Ray, Robert Beverley, Dienst, Richard
fromCambridge studies in new art and criticism