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Intricate thicket : reading late modernist poetries
\"In Intricate Thicket: Some Late Modernist Poetries, Mark Scroggins writes with wit and dash about a fascinating range of key twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets and writers. In nineteen lively and accessible essays, he persuasively argues that the innovations of modernist verse were not replaced by postmodernism, but rather those innovations continue to infuse contemporary writing and poetry with intellectual and aesthetic richness. In these essays, Scroggins reviews the legacy of Louis Zukofsky, delineates the exceptional influence of the Black Mountain poets, and provides close readings of a wealth of examples of poetic works from poets who have carried the modernist legacy into contemporary poetry. He traces with an insider's keen observation the careers of many of the most dynamic, innovative, and celebrated poets of the past half-century, among them Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ronald Johnson, Rae Armantrout, Harryette Mullen, and Anne Carson. In a concluding pair of essays, Scroggins situates his own practice within the broad currents he has described. He reflects on his own aesthetics as a contemporary poet and, drawing on his extensive study and writing about Louis Zukofsky, examines the practical and theoretical challenges of literary biography. While the core of these essays is the interpretation of poetry, Scroggins also offers clear aesthetic evaluations of the successes and failures of the poetries he examines. Scroggins engages with complex and challenging works, and yet his highly accessible descriptions and criticisms avoid theoretical entanglements and specialized jargon. Intricate Thicket yields subtle and multifaceted insights to experts and newcomers alike. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Franklin furnace and the spirit of the avant-garde
Franklin Furnace is a renowned New York-based arts organization that preserves, documents and presents works of avant-garde art by emerging artists. This book shows its comprehensive history from conception to the present. It intersperses first-person narratives with readings by artists and scholars on issues critical to the organization's success.
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Not born digital : poetics, print literacy, new media
\"Not Born Digital addresses from multiple perspectives - ethical, historical, psychological, conceptual, aesthetic - the vexing problems and sublime potential of disseminating lyrics, the ancient form of transmission and preservation of the human voice, in an environment in which e-poetry and digitalized poetics pose a crisis (understood as opportunity and threat) to traditional page poetry. The premise of Not Born Digital is that the innovative contemporary poets studied in this book engage obscure and discarded, but nonetheless historically resonant materials to unsettle what Charles Bernstein, a leading innovative contemporary U.S. poet and critic of \"official verse culture,\" refers to as \"frame lock\" and \"tone jam.\" While other scholars have begun to analyze poetry that appears in new media contexts, Not Born Digital concerns the ambivalent ways page poets (rather than electronica based poets) have grappled with \"screen memory\" (that is, electronic and new media sources) through the re-purposing of \"found\" materials\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Provisional Avant-Gardes
What would it mean to be avant-garde today? Arguing against the notion that the avant-garde is dead or confined to historically \"failed\" movements, this book offers a more dynamic and inclusive theory of avant-gardes that accounts for how they work in our present. Innovative in approach, Provisional Avant-Gardes focuses on the medium of the little magazine—from early Dada experiments to feminist, queer, and digital publishing networks—to understand avant-gardes as provisional and heterogeneous communities. Paying particular attention to neglected women writers, artists, and editors alongside more canonical figures, it shows how the study of little magazines can change our views of literary and art history while shedding new light on individual careers. By focusing on the avant-garde's publishing history and group dynamics, Sophie Seita also demonstrates a new methodology for writing about avant-garde practice across time, one that is applicable to other artistic and non-artistic communities and that speaks to contemporary practitioners as much as scholars. In the process, she addresses fundamental questions about the intersections of aesthetic form and politics and about what we consider to be literature and art.
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The Editor Function
Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as
inspired sources of postwar literary history Michel
Foucault famously theorized \"the author function\" in his 1969 essay
\"What Is an Author?\" proposing that the existence of the author
limits textual meaning. Abram Foley shows a similar critique at
work in the labor of several postwar editors who sought to question
and undo the corporate \"editorial/industrial complex.\" Marking an
end to the powerful trope of the editor as gatekeeper, The
Editor Function demonstrates how practices of editing and
publishing constitute their own kinds of thought, calling on us to
rethink what we read and how.
The Editor Function follows avant-garde American
literary editors and the publishing practices they developed to
compete against the postwar corporate consolidation of the
publishing industry. Foley studies editing and publishing through
archival readings and small press and literary journal publishing
lists as unique sites for literary inquiry. Pairing histories and
analyses of well- and lesser-known figures and publishing
formations, from Cid Corman's Origin and Nathaniel
Mackey's Hambone to Dalkey Archive Press and Semiotext(e),
Foley offers the first in-depth engagement with major publishing
initiatives in the postwar United States.
The Editor Function proposes that from the seemingly
mundane tasks of these editors-routine editorial correspondence,
line editing, list formation-emerge visions of new, better worlds
and new textual and conceptual spaces for collective action.
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Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life
Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life gives us a new way to view contemporary art novels, asking the key question: How do contemporary writers imagine aesthetic experience? Examining the works of some of the most popular names in contemporary fiction and art criticism, including Zadie Smith, Teju Cole, Siri Hustvedt, Ben Lerner, Rachel Kushner, and others, Alexandra Kingston-Reese finds that contemporary art novels are seeking to reconcile the negative feelings of contemporary life through a concerted critical realignment in understanding artistic sensibility, literary form, and the function of the aesthetic.
Kingston-Reese reveals how contemporary writers refract and problematize aesthetic experience, illuminating an uneasiness with failure: firstly, about the failure of aesthetic experiences to solve and save; and secondly, the literary inability to articulate the emotional dissonance caused by aesthetic experiences now.
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A Dictionary of the American Avant-Gardes
iFor this American edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz has selected from the fuller third edition his entries on North Americans, including Canadians, Mexicans, and resident immigrants.
Typically, he provides intelligence unavailable anywhere else, no less in print than online, about a wealth of subjects and individuals. Focused upon what is truly innovative and excellent, Kostelanetz also ranges widely with insight and surprise, including appreciations of artistic athletes such as Muhammad Ali and the Harlem Globetrotters, and such collective creations as Las Vegas and his native New York City. Continuing the traditions of cheeky high-style Dictionarysts, honoring Ambrose Bierce and Nicolas Slonimsky (both with individual entries), Kostelanetz offers a “reference book” to be treasured not only in bits and chunks, but continuously as one of the ten books someone would take if they planned to be stranded on a desert isle.
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Intricate Thicket
In
Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries , Mark
Scroggins writes with wit and dash about a fascinating range of
key twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets and writers. In
nineteen lively and accessible essays, he persuasively argues
that the innovations of modernist verse were not replaced by
postmodernism, but rather those innovations continue to infuse
contemporary writing and poetry with intellectual and aesthetic
richness. In these essays, Scroggins reviews the legacy of Louis
Zukofsky, delineates the exceptional influence of the Black
Mountain poets, and provides close readings of a wealth of
examples of poetic works from poets who have carried the
modernist legacy into contemporary poetry. He traces with an
insider’s keen observation the careers of many of the most
dynamic, innovative, and celebrated poets of the past
half-century, among them Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ronald Johnson, Rae
Armantrout, Harryette Mullen, and Anne Carson. In a concluding
pair of essays, Scroggins situates his own practice within the
broad currents he has described. He reflects on his own
aesthetics as a contemporary poet and, drawing on his extensive
study and writing about Louis Zukofsky, examines the practical
and theoretical challenges of literary biography. While the core
of these essays is the interpretation of poetry, Scroggins also
offers clear aesthetic evaluations of the successes and failures
of the poetries he examines. Scroggins engages with complex and
challenging works, and yet his highly accessible descriptions and
criticisms avoid theoretical entanglements and specialized
jargon.
Intricate Thicket yields subtle and multifaceted
insights to experts and newcomers alike.
eBook
Popular Culture in a New Age
With a Foreword by Dr. Fishwick's student--Tom Wolfe.
This book redefines popular culture in the light of the revolutionary changes brought about by the information revolution and the digital divide. It explores the phenomenal growth and extension of popular culture in the last decade and ties in the vast changes brought about by technology and the Internet. In an era when American television and the Internet reach virtually every corner of the globe, Popular Culture in a New Age shows how the poorly understood and often underestimated area known as popular culture affects all of our lives.
Beginning with an evaluation of the millennium celebrations and the enormous error of Y2K madness, Popular Culture in a New Age then moves on to the \"New Gold Rush\" brought about by technology and takes a hard look at its risks. The book examines a wide variety of pop culture phenomena such as carnivals, celebrities, and the road from nineteenth century humbuggery (P. T. Barnum's term) to today's hype.
In Popular Culture in a New Age you'll learn about:
the three faces of popular culture: folk, fake, and pop--how they relate and how they differ
today's popular icons
the empire of Disney World
Marshall McLuhan, our era's most profound and shocking electronic thinker
African-American popular culture and style Popular Culture in a New Age gives characterization to the postmodern world in a chapter on \"postmodern pop,\" followed by the shift from civil religion to civil disobedience and the \"myth of success.\" This insightful book will help you understand the way we eat, think, vote, and respond to our fast-changing world in the era of hype, spin doctors, chat rooms, and jargon.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Millennium Merrymaking
What to Make of the Millennium
Popular Culture: The Beggar at the Gate of Our Public Schools
The New Gold Rush
Folk/Fake/Pop
Sacred Symbols
The Man and the Mouse
Carnivals--Old and New
The Celebrity Cult
From Humbuggery to Hype
Surprise Attacks
The Electric Shocker
Style
Black Popular Culture
The Most Popular War
Postmodern Pop
Faith Takes a New Face
The Most Popular Myth
Global Village--Utopia Revisited?
Some Final Thoughts
Notes
Further Reading
Index
Reference Notes Included
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Late postmodernism : American fiction at the millennium
Does the novel have a future? Questions of this kind, which are as old as the novel itself, acquired a fresh urgency at the end of the twentieth-century with the rise of new media and the relegation of literature to the margins of American culture. As a result, anxieties about readership, cultural authority and literary value have come to preoccupy a second generation of postmodern novelists. Through close analysis of several major novels of the past decade, including works by Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Kathryn Davis, Jonathan Franzen and Richard Powers, Late Postmodernism examines the forces shaping contemporary literature and the remarkable strategies American writers have adopted to make sense of their place in culture.
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