Paul Magee

Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

Employing an extensive archive of interview materials with major Anglophone poets, this book uncovers how they think in the moments of composition, providing a lucid account of the links between poetic composition and live performative thinking.

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Produktdetails

• Performance Philosophy
• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781538153529
• ISBN-10: 1538153521
• Artikelnr.: 62756929

Autorenporträt

Paul Magee is associate professor of poetry at the University of Canberra. He is author of the ethnography From Here to Tierra del Fuego and two books of verse Cube Root of Book and Stone Postcard.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: On the Gradual Production of Thoughts Whilst Speaking
Part I Revising towards Spontaneity
1. We Do Not Know What We Are Going to Say until We Have Said It
2. "That's the Illusion You're Supposed to Get"
3. Scepticisms
Part II Two Histories of Sudden Verse
4. Romantic Revision and Its Others
5. The Iliad and The Odyssey Were Rapidly Composed
6. The Desk as Stage
7. Oral Verse in Performance
Part III Writing Is Speaking
8. Not-Quite Speech
9. Writing as "Oral Dictated"
10. Consciousness as a Window of Three Seconds
11. Song
Part IV Suddenness and Art
12. The Split in the Archive
13. "Great Goblets of Magnolialight"
References
Index
About the Author