Poetry as Re-Reading: American Avant-Garde Poetry and the Poetics of Counter-Method

by Ming-Qian Ma

Book Overview

Rereading and rewriting our understanding of the poetics of modernism and postmodernism, this truly revisionary work identifies a significant counter-tradition in twentieth-century poetry. Postmodernism, Ming-Qian Ma argues, does not so much follow from modernism as coexist with it, with postmodernists employing the anarchic poetics introduced by Gertrude Stein in countering the rationalist method of high modernists such as T. S. Eliot and Ezra...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810124831
• ISBN13: 9780810124837
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"