Defensive Measures: The Poetry of Niedecker, Bishop, Glück, and CarsonBucknell University Press, 2005 - 144 стор. Much of our strongest poetry that learned its lessons from early modernism lives by its defensive measures, that is, by means of reversing, inverting, and challenging in covert ways a dominant perceptual mode. Defensive Measures explores strategies by which poets claim their distinctiveness, and argues that poetry is the one literary form that most insistently demands a defense. It demands a defense, it would seem, because it is perpetually in crisis - not only in regard to its utility and its aesthetic appeal (or the vigor of its renunciation of such an appeal), but in regard to its generic existence. Upton defines a generative conception of defense and examines in a new light the poetry of Lorine Niedecker, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Gluck, and Anne Carson. In writing about Bishop. Upton puts this well-regarded poet in a new framework, aligning her work with that of three poets whose aesthetics might be viewed as antithetical to her own ... |
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... writers in so many other rooms this particular one remains a place of origin.3 Boland repeats variants of this scene of the place where she first began writing in Object Lessons in such essays as " In Search of a Language , " in ...
... writers in so many other rooms this particular one remains a place of origin.3 Boland repeats variants of this scene of the place where she first began writing in Object Lessons in such essays as " In Search of a Language , " in ...
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... writing is the center of the story Boland relates , but it is a story of invisibility , in a sense , for what occurs within the writer is not visible to us . We can see the product but not its process of becoming . Thus the woman at a ...
... writing is the center of the story Boland relates , but it is a story of invisibility , in a sense , for what occurs within the writer is not visible to us . We can see the product but not its process of becoming . Thus the woman at a ...
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... Writing ' For Paul ' For Louis . " In Lorine Niedecker : Woman & Poet , 157–70 . Orono , ME : National Poetry Foundation , 1996 . • Radical Artifice : Writing Poetry in the Age of Media . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1991 ...
... Writing ' For Paul ' For Louis . " In Lorine Niedecker : Woman & Poet , 157–70 . Orono , ME : National Poetry Foundation , 1996 . • Radical Artifice : Writing Poetry in the Age of Media . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1991 ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Defensive | 32 |
Defensive Nonsense in Elizabeth | 56 |
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