21st-Century Modernism
The "New" Poetics
Blackwell Manifestos
1. Edition December 2001
232 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-21970-5
John Wiley & Sons
This revisionist narrative of poetic change in the twentieth century challenges the accepted notions of what poetry is and can be in the new century and makes the case for the seminal place of poetry in contemporary culture.
List of Plates.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1 Avant-Garde Eliot.
2 Gertrude Stein's Differential Syntx.
3 The Conceptual Poetics of Marcel Duchamp.
4 Khlebnikov's Soundscapes: Letter, Number, and the
Poetics of Zaum.
5 "Modernism" at the Millennium.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1 Avant-Garde Eliot.
2 Gertrude Stein's Differential Syntx.
3 The Conceptual Poetics of Marcel Duchamp.
4 Khlebnikov's Soundscapes: Letter, Number, and the
Poetics of Zaum.
5 "Modernism" at the Millennium.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
"Perloff's newest work offers refreshingly frank, controversial,
and even inspiring ideas ... Perloff's readings refuse to reaffirm
orthodoxies, presenting innovative perspectives on poets, early
modernism and its relation to the current scene. Far from being a
reactionary call to return to the past, Perloff's work envisions a
bold continuation of modernism's earlier revolutionary impulses.
21st-Century Modernism is vital and necessary reading for
anyone interested in the history of modern poetry and where it is
going." PN Review
"The book commands respect, [...], not only for its energy and
the precision of its readings, but for its refusal to surrender
powers of arbitration from the artist to the teacher or theorist."
Times Literary Supplement
"The heart of [Perloff's] book is her enthusiasm - a
well-researched and carefully argued enthusiasm" The Virginia
Quarterly Review
and even inspiring ideas ... Perloff's readings refuse to reaffirm
orthodoxies, presenting innovative perspectives on poets, early
modernism and its relation to the current scene. Far from being a
reactionary call to return to the past, Perloff's work envisions a
bold continuation of modernism's earlier revolutionary impulses.
21st-Century Modernism is vital and necessary reading for
anyone interested in the history of modern poetry and where it is
going." PN Review
"The book commands respect, [...], not only for its energy and
the precision of its readings, but for its refusal to surrender
powers of arbitration from the artist to the teacher or theorist."
Times Literary Supplement
"The heart of [Perloff's] book is her enthusiasm - a
well-researched and carefully argued enthusiasm" The Virginia
Quarterly Review
Marjorie Perloff is Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of
Humanities Emerita at Stanford University. She is the author of
numerous books, including Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in
the Age of Media (1991), Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic
Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary (1996), and
Poetry On and Off the Page (1998). She is considered to be
one of the most distinguished critics now writing on
twentieth-century poetry and poetics.
Humanities Emerita at Stanford University. She is the author of
numerous books, including Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in
the Age of Media (1991), Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic
Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary (1996), and
Poetry On and Off the Page (1998). She is considered to be
one of the most distinguished critics now writing on
twentieth-century poetry and poetics.
