Louis Zukofsky and the transformation of a modern American poetics /
Viewing Louis Zukofsky as a reader, writer, and innovator of twentieth-century poetry, Sandra Stanley argues that his works serve as a crucial link between American modernism and post- modernism. Like Ezra Pound, Zukofsky saw himself as a participant in the transformation of a modern American poetic...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2392275 |
| Crynodeb: | Viewing Louis Zukofsky as a reader, writer, and innovator of twentieth-century poetry, Sandra Stanley argues that his works serve as a crucial link between American modernism and post- modernism. Like Ezra Pound, Zukofsky saw himself as a participant in the transformation of a modern American poetics; but unlike Pound, Zukofsky, the ghetto-born son of an immigrant Russian Jew, was keenly aware of his marginal position in society. Championing the importance of the little words, such as a and the, Zukofsky effected his own proletarian "revolution of the word." Stanley explains how Zukofsky emphasized the materiality of language, refusing to reduce it to a commodity controlled by an "authorial/authoritarian" self. She also describes his legacy to contemporary poets, particularly such Language poets as Ron Silliman and Charles Bernstein. |
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| Disgrifiad Corfforoll: | 1 online resource (ix, 198 pages) |
| Llyfryddiaeth: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-193) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520911017 0520911016 0585228450 9780585228457 0520073576 9780520073579 9780520340947 0520340949 |