| Paradise and Method: Poetry and Praxis Contributor(s): Andrews, Bruce (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0810113082 ISBN-13: 9780810113084 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1996 Annotation: This book combines theoretical essays, interviews, and symposia responses with shorter pieces on a variety of postwar English-language poets (from Oppen, Ashbery, and Howe to younger contemporaries). Working from a foundation in the specifics of current practice that more overarching theory often ignores, Andrews challenges and extends the limitations of traditional literary criticism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 809.104 |
| LCCN: 96007745 |
| Series: Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.96" W x 8.89" (1.00 lbs) 275 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Paradise & Method: Poetics and Praxis collects nearly two decades of work on poetics by one of the pioneers of the language poetry movement. Addressing poetics from a poet's perspective, Andrews focuses on the ways in which meaning is produced and challenged. His essays aim to map out opportunities for making sense (or making noise)--both in reading and writing contemporary literature. At the center has been a desire to explore language, as up close as possible, as a material and social medium for restagings of meaning and power. Andrews analyzes poetics and the production of meaning; alternative traditions and canons; and innovative contemporary poetry, particularly its break with many of the premises and constraints of even the most forward-looking modernisms. |