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Reading Error: The Lyric and Contemporary Poetry

Reading Error: The Lyric and Contemporary Poetry

Ayers, David
Herd, David
Montefiore, Jan

Paperback

Series: Modern Poetry, Book 1

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 303911025X
ISBN13: 9783039110254
Publisher: Peter Lang Uk
Published: Nov 15 2007
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book considers the development of the lyric form in recent American poetry of the past three decades. By concentrating on the writing of three poets associated with language writing, Charles Bernstein, Michael Palmer and Lyn Hejinian, the discussion considers the attempts of contemporary poetry to problematise the identification of the lyric as a static model of subjectivity. Central considerations motivating the discussion are: How do contemporary lyric poets negotiate the propositions posed by postmodern thought? What reading of lyricism can one formulate once the self is displaced from centre stage and an 'experience' of language takes its place? The book proposes that an aesthetic of error enables us to approach the reconfiguration of the lyric in recent innovative poetry. Drawing from elements of modernist poetic practice, psychoanalytic theory, language philosophy and critical theory this book pursues methods for understanding the demands placed upon the reader of contemporary poetry.

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