TY - BOOK AU - Bové,Paul A. TI - Destructive Poetics: Heidegger and Modern American Poetry SN - 9780231908405 PY - 1980///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; One: Literary History and Literary Interpretation: Toward a Theory of Poetic Destruction --; Two: Heidegger's Phenomenological Destruction: A Theory of Poetic Interpretation --; Three: Cleanth Brooks and Modern Irony: A Kierkegaardian Critique --; Four: Leaves of Grass and the Center: Free Play or Transcendence --; Five: Fiction, Risk, and Deconstruction: The Poetry of Wallace Stevens --; Six: The Particularities of Tradition: History and Locale in The Maximus Poems --; Notes --; Index; restricted access N2 - Presents a critical destruction of the 'New Criticism' of modern poetry and a destructive reading of the poetry of Whitman, Stevens, and Olson. Also includes an analysis of how modern and postmodern poetry destroys the notion of 'tradition' in the sense of a set of interrelations among texts, and how that destruction should affect criticism of modern and postmodern poetry UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/bove90840 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780231880756.jpg ER -