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American Hybrid Poetics

Robbins, Amy Moorman

2014,2019

Overview

American Hybrid Poeticsexplores the ways in which hybrid poetics-a playful mixing of disparate formal and aesthetic strategies-have been the driving force in the work of a historically and culturally diverse group of women poets who are part of a robust tradition in contesting the dominant cultural order. Amy Moorman Robbins examines the ways in which five poets-Gertrude Stein, Laura Mullen, Alice Notley, Harryette Mullen, and Claudia Rankine-use hybridity as an implicitly political strategy to interrupt mainstream American language, literary genres, and visual culture, and expose the ways in which mass culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has had a powerfully standardizing impact on the collective American imagination. By forcing encounters between incompatible traditions-consumer culture with the avant-garde, low culture forms with experimental poetics, prose poetry with linguistic subversiveness-these poets bring together radically competing ideologies and highlight their implications for lived experience. Robbins argues that it is precisely because these poets have mixed forms that their work has gone largely unnoticed by leading members and critics in experimental poetry circles.

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Subject: Aesthetics in literature / Alice Notley / American / american lit / american literary history / american literature / American poetry / American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism / american studies / Blood on the Dining-Room Floor / Claudia Rankine / crime fiction / Cultural fusion in literature / Disobedience / Don't Let me be lonely / experimental poetics / gender studies / genres / Gertrude Stein / Harryette Mullen / History and criticism / hybrid poetics / language / Language & Literature / language arts / Laura Mullen / linguistic subversiveness / literary arts / LITERARY CRITICISM / LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh / LITERARY CRITICISM / General / literary studies / Literature / modernist / murmur / Poetics / poetry / poets / postmodern / prose / prose poetry / rutgers / rutgers university / rutgers university press / scholarship / the american literature initiative / United States / visual art / visual culture / Women and literature / Women and literature -- United States / Women authors / women poets / women writers
• ISBN: 0813564662, 9780813564661, 9780813564654, 0813564654, 0813564646, 9780813564647