The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry

ISBN-13: 9780312293222 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 287 str.

Tim Woods

Opis

This book situates Louis Zukofsky's poetics, and the lineage of Objectivist poetics more broadly, within a set of fundamental ethical concerns in American poetic modernism. Tim Woods makes a strong case for Zukofsky as a missing key figure within thi

Recenzje

The Poetics of the Limit...does a stellar job of presenting Zukofsky's work as a living body of art in which the ethics, politics, art, and science of the century coalesce.' - Codrina Cozma, Journal of American Studies

Spis treści

Introduction: Ethics and Objectivist Poetics The Emergence of 'Objectivist' Poetics: Aesthetics and Politics in the USA, 1910-1930 'Words ranging forms': The Crises of Modernism in 'A'-1 to 'A'-6 The 'Negative Dialectics' of Louis Zukofsky's 'A' 'A'-9: A Labor of Love, or a Love of Labor? Ethos or Ontos? Modes of Subjectivity in Levinas and Zukofsky 'Figuring it out' and Doubling 'A'-gain: Language and Otherness in 'A'-12 to 'A'-23 'Things at the limits of reason': George Oppen's Materialist Ethics Conclusion: Reading Language Writing

O autorze

TIM WOODS has taught at King Alfred's College, Winchester, and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he is currently senior lecturer in English and American Studies. He has co-edited 'I'm telling you stories': Jeanette Winterson and the Politics of Reading (Rodopi, 1998), Critical Ethics: Text, Theory and Responsibility (Macmillan, 1999), The Ethics in Literature (Macmillan, 2000), and authored Beginning Postmodernism (Manchester, 1999) and Who's Who in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Routledge, 2001). Articles have appeared in Parataxis, English, Rethinking History, The Poet's Voice, and Textual Practice. He is currently completing a monograph on African Literatures in English