Contemporary Poetics

Book Overview

Exploring the boundaries of one of the most contested fields of literary study--a field that in fact shares territory with philology, aesthetics, cultural theory, philosophy, and even cybernetics--this volume gathers a body of critical writings that, taken together, broadly delineate a possible poetics of the contemporary. In these essays, the most interesting and distinguished theorists in the field renegotiate the contours of what might constitute...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810123592
• ISBN13: 9780810123595
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"