A Serpentine Gesture: John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology

by Elisabeth W. Joyce

In "A Serpentine Gesture" John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology Elisabeth W. Joyce examines John Ashbery's poetry through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's conception of phenomenology. For Merleau-Ponty, perception is a process through which people reach outside of themselves for sensory information, map that experiential information against what they have previously encountered and what is culturally inculcated in them, and articulate shifts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826363814
• ISBN13: 9780826363817
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"