Poetic license
essays on modernist and postmodernist lyric
by Marjorie Perloff and Marjorie Perloff
In Poetic License, Marjorie 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. On topics ranging from general problems of canonicity to the critical evaluation of such poets as Plath, Ginsberg, and others, Perloff introduces nonconventional ideas of the nature of poetic texts and reframes the discussion of postmodern "paratexts." Her discussion reformulates basic presuppositions of what poetry is and what it can do and leads us to see the great possibilities still open to lyric poetry at a time when, as Yeats predicted, "the center cannot hold."--Publisher description.
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History and criticism, Postmodernism (Literature), Modernism (Literature), English poetry, American poetry, American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism., English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism., Modernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries., Postmodernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries., Gedichten, Engels, Amerikaans, Poésie américaine, Histoire et critique, Poésie anglaise, Postmodernisme (Littérature), Modernisme (Littérature), Poetry, English, Poetry, modern, history and criticism, PoeticsTimes
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Poetic license: essays on modernist and postmodernist lyric
1990, Northwestern University Press
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Poetic license: essays on modernist and postmodernist lyric
1990, Northwestern University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-344) and index.
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