21st-century modernism
Subtitle: the "new" poetics
By: Marjorie Perloff.
Series: Blackwell manifestos
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Malden, Mass; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Modernism (Literature)
Other titles: Twenty-first century modernism.
Description: "What if, despite the current predominance of a tepid and unambitious Establishment poetry, there were a powerful avant-garde that takes up, once again, the experimentation of the early twentieth-century? Marjorie Perloff's manifesto argues that it is only at the turn of our own century that the powerful lessons of the avant-garde - an avant-garde cruelly disrupted by the Great War and subsequent political upheavals - are being learned." "In detailed readings of T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, and Velimir Khlebnikov, Perloff studies the strains which were to become so important today: the Eliotic understanding that form is meaning, Stein's revisionary treatment of syntax and everyday language, Duchamp's conceptualism, with its transformation of the ontology of the "work of 'art'" itself, and Khlebnikov's poetics of etymology, sound play, and spatial design. These individual but related poetic concerns are then examined in the work of a number of poets writing today."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents: Avant-garde Eliot - Gertrude Stein's differential syntax - The conceptual poetics of Marcel Duchamp - Khlebnikov's soundscapes : letter, number and the poetics of Zaum - Modernism at the millennium.