Forces in Modern & Postmodern Poetry (Studies in Modern Poetry)
Contributors: Peter Baker (Editor)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; P. Lang
Published: November 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780820451343
Subjects: Poetry; Literary Criticism; 20th century; History and criticism; Poetics; Poetry, Modern
Description: "Forces in Modern and Postmodern Poetry examines the works of classic authors in the modern and postmodern literary tradition, including Stephane Mallarme, Wallace Stevens, Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, Charles Olson, Paul Celan, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, and John Ashbery, all from a comparative perspective. The concepts, modern and postmodern, are not used to provide definitive answers but to raise questions concerning the status of representation, issues of the self, and the use of imagery and musical invention. The wide range of the study is matched by the richly detailed analysis of specific poetic texts from an author noted for the scope and acuity of his attention to modern poetry in all its varied forms."--Jacket.