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Ethics and Politics in Modern American Poetry

Ethics and Politics in Modern American Poetry

Wrighton, John

Hardcover

Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0415801222
ISBN13: 9780415801225
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 1 2009
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The relationship between ethics, politics, and poetics is here examined by Wrighton, in the study of twentieth-century experimental American poetry. Relying upon the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, Wrighton charts the development of ethical praxis in experimental work from the Objectivists of the 1920s, through to detailed analysis of the Black Mountain and Beat writers of the post-war era, and the post-Vietnam Language poets. The poetic projects engaged -- including work from Charles Olson, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Jerome Rothenberg, and Bruce Andrews -- are shown to be oppositional to the dominant political discourses of their time, re-imagining notions of democracy and community where an ontological abuse has been manifest in totalizing ideologies.

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