In this mid-life autobiography (1938) the English novelist Henry Green recounts his life up to the point where he began to write seriously. The book covers his privileged childhood; the loathed boarding school he was sent to at the age of six; the joy he took in fishing, books, and the company of the workers in his father's foundry; and his ...
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 ...
In this collection of seven critical pieces, Perloff argues that the theme of artifice is at the forefront of the most exciting avant-garde writing of the late 20th-century. Illuminating the work of John Ashbery, Susan Howe, Clark Coolidge, Lyn Hejinian, and others, Perloff discusses how, by engaging in a conversation with the mass media, avant ...
This examination of the flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in European art and literature of the twentieth century, offers considerations of futurist work from Russia to Italy.
Marjorie Perloff is one of the foremost critics of contemporary American poetry writing today. Regarded as highly accessible, her works are credited by many with creating and sustaining new critical interest not only in the work of major modernist poets such as Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Williams but also in the postwar tradition of American poetic ...
Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenstein's remark that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," Perloff begins ...
This groundbreaking study of the poet emphasizes his importance in the world of mid-century literature, and examines the influence of the visual arts on his work.
In 'Poetic License, ' Perloff insists that despite the recent interest in 'opening up the canon, ' our understanding of poetry and poetics is all too often rutted in conventional notions of the lyric that shed little light on what poets and artists are actually doing today.
This study, first published in 1981, argues that the map of modernist poetry needs to be redrawn so as to include a central tradition that cannot properly be located within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition that dominated the early-20th century. Marjorie Perloff traces this tradition from its early "French connection" in the poetry of Rimbaud and ...
These essays share as their theme the reconsideration of the role of historical and cultural change in the evolution of 20th-century poetry and poetics. Perloff first looks at broad theoretical concerns - the evolution and contradictions of the term "postmodernism"; the vexed relation of modernism to the primitivism ostensible inherent in it; the ...
A fascinating memoir of refugee flight and survival, intellectual yet highly personal, by one America's eminent literary critics. The Vienna Paradox is Marjorie Perloff's memoir of growing up in pre-World War II Vienna, her escape to America in 1938 with her upper-middle-class, highly cultured, and largely assimilated Jewish family, and her ...
One of the most innovative and respected figures of his literary generation in Europe, Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929-) has also become a major presence in international debates about literature and social change. The first English-language study of this influential literary figure, Poetic Maneuvers considers Enzensberger's poetical texts as part ...
When the avant-gardist John Cage died, he was already the subject of many interviews, memoirs and discussions of his contribution to music, music theory and performance practice. This text includes a revisionist treatment of the way Cage himself has composed and been "composed" in America. A disciple of Duchamp and Schoenberg, Satie and Joyce, ...
Ezra Pound termed a new strain in Post-Modernist poetry 'Logopoeia - the dance of the intellect among words', and in this collection of essays, Marjorie Perloff examines this new strain in poetics. These essays focus on the poetry of Swinburne, Yeats, Stevens, Joyce, Williams, Cage, and Pound, among others. Through her analyses, the author traces ...
"He is James Joyce reborn as a rap artist."-Mel Gussow, "The New York Times" This collection includes "Albanian Softshoe," "Mister Original Bugg," "Cleveland," "Bad Penny," "Cellophane," "Three Americanisms," "Fnu Lnu," "Girl Gone," "Hypatia," "The Sandalwood Box" and "Cat's Paw." Written between 1983 and 1998, they showcase Wellman's ongoing ...
Known for using experimental, absurdist narratives and linguistic play to erect scathing social and political commentary, Wellman has emerged as one of the most notable avant-garde playwrights of his time. This volume collects the work he considers his own best: ALBANIAN SOFTSHOE, MISTER ORIGINAL BUGG, CLEVELAND, BAD PENNY, CELLOPHANE, THREE ...
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