Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem
Author | : Matthew Carbery |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-01-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783030050023 |
ISBN-13 | : 3030050025 |
Rating | : 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Download or read book Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem written by Matthew Carbery and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem reads major figures including Charles Olson, Lyn Hejinian, Nathaniel Mackey, Susan Howe and Rachel Blau DuPlessis within a new approach to the long poem tradition. Through a series of contextualised close readings, it explores the ways in which American poets developed their poetic forms by engaging with a variety of European phenomenologists, including Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Consolidating recent materials on the role of Continental Philosophy in American poetics, this book explores the theoretical and historical contexts in which avant-garde poets have developed radically new methods of making poems long. Matthew Carbery offers a timely commentary on a number of major works of American poetry whilst providing ground-breaking research into the wider philosophical context of late twentieth-century poetic experimentation.