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The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry

The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry

Woods, Tim

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Science

ISBN10: 0312293224
ISBN13: 9780312293222
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 2 2003
Pages: 287
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.42 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This book situates Louis Zukofsky's poetics (and the lineage of Objectivist poetics more broadly) within a set of ethical concerns in American poetic modernism. The book makes a strong case for perceiving Zukofsky as a missing key figure within this ethical matrix of modernism. Viewing Zukofsy's poetry through the lens of the theoretical work of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, Woods argues for an ethical genealogy of American poetics leading from Zukofsky through the contemporary school of LANGUAGE poetry. Woods brings together modernism and postmodernism, ethics and aesthetics, in interesting and innovative ways which shed new light on our understanding of this neglected strain of modernist poetics.

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