Material Poetics in Hemispheric America

Words and Objects 1950-2010

von Rebecca Kosick

240 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Reconsiders the lyrical norm that predominates in Anglophone accounts of poetry through a multilingual and transnational lens- A bold project that departs from a tradition heavily dominated by the lyric to question the very nature of what counts as poetry.- A visually exciting text that draws on poetry and art from a wide array of late twentieth and early twenty-first century practitioners.- An interdisciplinary approach to poetry and poetics that opens new avenues for understanding how poetry intersects with philosophies of the object, media theory, and visual studies.- A transnational frame that responds to a growing scholarly push to situate American studies within the broader context of the American hemisphere.This book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language. It builds a theory of 'material poetics' that provides an alternative account of poetry in hemispheric America. Rebecca Kosick argues that by reframing American poetry to prominently include object-oriented practices within and beyond the United States, material poetry can be seen as representing a significant branch of the American poetic tradition.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturtheorie
• ISBN: 9781474474603
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2020
• Größe: 236 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press