The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
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Marjorie Perloff (Author)
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This study, first published in 1981, argues that the map of modernist poetry needs to be redrawn so as to include a central tradition that cannot properly be located within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition that dominated the early-20th century. Marjorie Perloff traces this tradition from its early ""French connection"" in the poetry of Rimbaud and Apollinaire as well as in Cubist, Dada and early Surrealist painting; through its various manifestations in the work of Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound; to such postmodern ""landscapes without depth"" as the French/English language constructions of Samuel Beckett, the elusive dreamscapes of John Ashbery, and the performance works of David Antin and John Cage. illustrations
About the Author
Marjorie Perloff is the Sadie Dernham Patek professor of Humanities at Stanford University. She is the author of many books of literary criticism, including Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric and The Dance of the Intellect, both published by Northwestern University Press.
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- Contributor: Marjorie Perloff
- Imprint: Northwestern University Press
- ISBN13: 9780810117648
- Number of Pages: 368
- Packaged Weight: 580
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Release Date: 1999-12-30
- Series: Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Marjorie Perloff is the Sadie Dernham Patek professor of Humanities at Stanford University. She is the author of many books of literary criticism, including Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric and The Dance of the Intellect, both published by Northwestern University Press.
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