Jennifer Ashton

From Modernism to Postmodernism

American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Jennifer Ashton develops important ways to read modernist and postmodernist poets through their similarities as well as their differences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780521101554
• ISBN-10: 0521101557
• Artikelnr.: 25617800

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Ashton is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: modernism's new literalism
1. Gertrude Stein for anyone
2. Making the rose red: Stein, proper names and the critique of indeterminacy
3. Laura (Riding) Jackson and the New Criticism
4. Modernism's old literalism: Pound, Williams, Zukofsky and the objectivist critique of metaphor
5. Authorial inattention: Donald Davidson's literalism, Jorie Graham's Materialism and cognitive science's embodied minds
Notes
Index.