Ebook: Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem
Author: Matthew Carbery
- Tags: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature
- Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Language: English
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Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem reads major figures including Charles Olson, Lyn Hejinian, Nathaniel Mackey, Susan Howe and Rachel Blau DuPlessis within a new approach to the long poem tradition. Through a series of contextualised close readings, it explores the ways in which American poets developed their poetic forms by engaging with a variety of European phenomenologists, including Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Consolidating recent materials on the role of Continental Philosophy in American poetics, this book explores the theoretical and historical contexts in which avant-garde poets have developed radically new methods of making poems long. Matthew Carbery offers a timely commentary on a number of major works of American poetry whilst providing ground-breaking research into the wider philosophical context of late twentieth-century poetic experimentation.