American Hybrid Poetics
American Hybrid Poetics explores the ways in which hybrid poeticsaa playful mixing of disparate formal and aesthetic strategiesahave been the driving force in the work of a historically and culturally diverse group of women poets who are part of a robust tradition in contesting the dominant cultural order. Amy Moorman Robbins examines the ways in which five poetsaGertrude Stein, Laura Mullen, Alice Notley, Harryette Mullen, and Claudia Rankineause hybridity as an implicitly political strategy to interrupt mainstream American language, literary genres, and visual culture, and expose the ways in which mass culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has had a powerfully standardizing impact on the collective American imagination. By forcing encounters between incompatible traditionsaconsumer culture with the avant-garde, low culture forms with experimental poetics, prose poetry with linguistic subversivenessathese poets bring together radically competing ideologies and highlight their implications for lived experience. Robbins argues that it is precisely because these poets have mixed forms that their work has gone largely unnoticed by leading members and critics in experimental poetry circles.Rankinea#39;s poem merges the epiphanic lyric, visual media, journalistic/academic writing inthe formofprolific endnotes, andthe culturalcritical essay in aformally complexcritiqueof subjectproductionand regulation atvarious sitesinour currentanbsp;...
| Title | : | American Hybrid Poetics |
| Author | : | Amy Moorman Robbins |
| Publisher | : | Rutgers University Press - 2014-07-21 |
You must register with us as either a Registered User before you can Download this Book. You'll be greeted by a simple sign-up page.
Once you have finished the sign-up process, you will be redirected to your download Book page.
How it works:- 1. Register a free 1 month Trial Account.
- 2. Download as many books as you like (Personal use)
- 3. Cancel the membership at any time if not satisfied.
