""Objectivist"" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and...
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""Objectivist"" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological worldview, Objectivists have retained their outsider status. Despite such status, however, the formal, intellectual, ideological, and ethical concerns of the Objectivist nexus have increasingly influenced poetry and poetics in the United States.Thus, argue editors Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quarte...
""Objectivist"" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and...
mehr
""Objectivist"" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological worldview, Objectivists have retained their outsider status. Despite such status, however, the formal, intellectual, ideological, and ethical concerns of the Objectivist nexus have increasingly influenced poetry and poetics in the United States.Thus, argue editors Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quarte
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction / Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quatermain; I. ""We Said / Objectivist"": Optics, Objectification, Sincerity, Seriality; 1. The Objectivist Tradition / Charles Altieri; 2. A Poetics of Marginality and Resistance: The Objectivist Poets in Context / Burton Hatlen; 3. Be Aware of ""the Medusa's Glance"": The Objectivist Lens and Carl Rakosi's Poetics of Strabismal Seeing / Ming-Qian Ma; 4. George Oppen's Serial Poems / Alan Golding ; II. Politics, Class, and Ideology; 5. Communists and Objectivists / Eric Homberger
6. Irrelevant Objects: Basil Bunting's Poetry of the 1930s / John Seed7. Objectivists in the Thirties: Utopocalyptic Moments / Michael Heller; 8. Lorine Niedecker's ""Folk Base"" and Her Challenge to the American Avant-Garde / Peter Middleton; III. Ethics and Religious Culture; 9. Tradition and Modernity, Judaism and Objectivism: The Poetry of Charles Reznikoff / Norman Finkelstein; 10. Reznikoff's Nearness / Charles Bernstein; 11. Of Being Ethical: Reflections on George Oppen / Peter Nicholls; IV. Affiliations; 12. Reading Reznikoff: Zukofsky, Oppen, and Niedecker / Robert Franciosi
13. Zukofsky's List / Andrew Crozier14. ""And All Now Is War"": George Oppen, Charles Olson, and the Problem of Literary Generations / Stephen Fredman; 15. Land's End / Yves di Manno; 16. The Transformations of Objectivism: An Afterword / Charles Altieri; Notes; Works Cited; Contributors; Index