Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre by Michel Delville ISBN: 0-8130-1859-5 Publisher: University Press of Florida Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Exploration of a Postmodern Genre
Comment: Michel Delville argues that the twentieth-century American prose poem ought not to be regarded as merely a piece of ornamented, poeticized prose but rather as a negotiation of the boundaries of lyric, narrative, expository, and speculative genres. In recent years the prose poem has been informed and ruptured by both poststructuralism and Marxism. In the hands of "the Language poets," the New Prose Poem insists on its scriptural illegibility rather than a speech-based comprehensibility. It may oppose the social and economic status quo, not through direct reference--which would only mirror the language of the dominant ideology--but by subverting the linguistic assumptions that undergird the status quo. Delville's interpretations are especially powerful when they focus on Gertrude Stein, Russell Edson, Charles Simic, and such "Language Poets" as Lyn Hejinian, Madeline Gins, and Kit Robinson. Delville astutely questions how politically subversive such writers can be when they make little contact with the social and political world. He refrains from asking what seems to me an equally salient question: What if the language of hegemonic discourse (e.g. TV and the internet) is now not necessarily transparent and speech-based but often discontinuous and nonreferential--that is, not fundamentally different from the language of the New Prose Poem? Perhaps one of the strengths of contemporary prose poems, and of Delville's valuable analysis of them, is that they encourage us to rethink and to refeel our relationship to the postindustrial overflow of signs.
 |
Title: Models of the Universe: An Anthology of the Prose Poem by Stuart Friebert, David Young ISBN: 093244069X Publisher: Oberlin College Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
 |
Title: Great American Prose Poems : From Poe to the Present by David Lehman ISBN: 0743243501 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 21 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
 |
Title: No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets by Ray Gonzalez ISBN: 1932195017 Publisher: Tupelo Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
 |
Title: The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry by Robert Alexander, Mark Vinz, C. W. Truesdale ISBN: 0898231655 Publisher: New Rivers Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
 |
Title: A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver ISBN: 0156724006 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
