TY  - BOOK
AU  - Golston,Michael
AU  - Coolidge,Clark
AU  - Hejinian,Lyn
AU  - Howe,Susan
AU  - Inman,Peter
AU  - Kim,Myung Mi
AU  - Niedecker,Lorine
AU  - Zukofsky,Louis
TI  - Poetic Machinations: Allegory, Surrealism, and Postmodern Poetic Form 
SN  - 9780231164306
U1  - 811/.509 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Allegory
KW  - American poetry
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Poetics
KW  - Surrealism (Literature)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Polemical Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Entomologies --; 2. Epistemologies --; 3. A=L=L=E=G=O=R=I=E=S --; 4. Semiologies --; 5. Fictocritical Postlude --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The shape, lineation, and prosody of postmodern poems are extravagantly inventive, imbuing both form and content with meaning. 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 Surrealism as an allegorical art, Golston defines a distinct engagement with allegory among philosophers, theorists, and critics from 1950 to today. Reading Fredric Jameson, Angus Fletcher, Roland Barthes, and Craig Owens, and working with the semiotics of Charles Sanders Pierce, Golston develops a theory of allegory he then applies to the poems of Louis Zukofsky and Lorine Niedecker, who, he argues, wrote in response to the Surrealists; the poems of John Ashbery and Clark Coolidge, who incorporated formal aspects of filmmaking and photography into their work; the groundbreaking configurations of P. Inman, Lyn Hejinian, Myung Mi Kim, and the Language poets; Susan Howe's "Pierce-Arrow," which he submits to semiotic analysis; and the innovations of Craig Dworkin and the conceptualists. Revitalizing what many consider to be a staid rhetorical trope, Golston positions allegory as a creative catalyst behind American poetry's postwar avant-garde achievements
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231538633
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231538633/original
ER  -