| Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric Contributor(s): Perloff, Marjorie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0810108445 ISBN-13: 9780810108448 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1990 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry |
| Dewey: 811.040 |
| LCCN: 89071136 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.06" W x 9.01" (1.17 lbs) 245 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Perloff, Marjorie: - Marjorie Perloff is professor of English emerita at Stanford University and the Florence R. Scott Professor of English Emerita at the University of Southern California. She is the author of many books, including, most recently, Poetics in a New Key and Unoriginal Genius, also published by the University of Chicago Press. |