TY - GEN T1 - Poetic machinations : allegory, surrealism, and postmodern poetic form A1 - Golston, Michael LA - English PP - New York PB - Columbia University Press YR - 2015 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn916952164 AB - The shape, lineation, and prosody of postmodern poems are extravagantly inventive, imbuing their form with as much meaning as their content. Through a survey of American poetry and poetics from the end of World War II to the present, Michael Golston traces the proliferation of these experiments to a growing fascination with allegory in philosophy, linguistics, critical theory, and aesthetics, introducing new strategies for reading American poetry while embedding its formal innovations within the history of intellectual thought. Beginning with Walter Benjamin's explicit understanding of Surrea. OP - 266 CN - PS323.5 .G65 2015 SN - 9780231538633 SN - 0231538634 SN - 9780231164306 SN - 0231164300 KW - American poetry : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Allegory. KW - Surrealism (Literature) KW - Poetics. KW - Poésie américaine : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Allégorie. KW - Surréalisme (Littérature) KW - Poétique. KW - Surrealist. KW - allegories (literary works) KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : Poetry. KW - Allegory KW - American poetry KW - Poetics KW - English. KW - Languages & Literatures. KW - American Literature. KW - 1900-1999 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -