George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism

by Peter Nicholls

Book Overview

Regard for George Oppen's poetry has been growing steadily over the last decade. Peter Nicholls's study offers a timely opportunity to engage with a body of work which can be both luminously simple and intriguingly opaque. Nicholls charts Oppen's commitment to Marxism and his later explorations of a 'poetics of being' inspired by Heidegger and Existentialism, providing detailed accounts of each of the poet's books. He is the first critic to draw extensively...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199678464
• ISBN13: 9780199678464
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"