Poetry is composed of sensation: this Deleuze-Guattarian assertion is central to a Deleuzian poetics that provides a fruitful approach to the difficulties of innovative literature and poetry in particular. This book is a clear exposition of a...
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Poetry is composed of sensation: this Deleuze-Guattarian assertion is central to a Deleuzian poetics that provides a fruitful approach to the difficulties of innovative literature and poetry in particular. This book is a clear exposition of a Deleuzian approach to literature that treats the literary text, particularly the poem, as something that exists in its own right. As such poetry is presented as something that must be encountered, actualised and embodied by readers on its own terms, rather than providing access to something else that it 'represents'. Far from being a hermetic, 'ivory towe
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: 'Crowned anarchy' - Deleuze's univocal concept of being and the simulacrum: non-representational modernism and poetic innovation; Chapter Two: Sensation and a Deleuzian aesthetics: reading innovative poetries; Chapter Three: The significance of sensation: innovative poetry as social thought; Chapter Four: The significance of sensation: the self; Chapter Five: The significance of sensation: the composition and force of innovative poetic space; Chapter Six: The significance of sensation: the politics of contemporary innovative poetry