Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry

Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry

Blasing, Mutlu Konuk

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 94

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521496071
ISBN13: 9780521496070
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 24 1995
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.29 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern critical perspective, this study challenges the prevailing assumption that experimental forms signify political opposition while traditional forms are politically conservative. It defines postmodern poetry as a break with modernism's valorization of technique and its implicit collusion with technological progress. It shows how four major postwar poets Frank O'Hara, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, and James Merrill cannot be read as politically conservative because formally traditional or as culturally oppositional because formally experimental. All these poets acknowledge that no one form is more natural than another, and no given form grants them a superior position for judging cultural and political arrangements. Their work plays an important cultural role precisely by revealing how meanings and values do not inhere in forms but are always and irreducibly rhetorical.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

General Poetry

View All