The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry

by Tim Woods

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This book situates Louis Zukofsky's poetics (and the lineage of Objectivist poetics more broadly) within a set of ethical concerns in American poetic modernism. The book makes a strong case for perceiving Zukofsky as a missing key figure within this ethical matrix of modernism. Viewing Zukofsy's poetry through the lens of the theoretical work of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, Woods argues for an ethical genealogy of American poetics leading...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0312293224

ISBN13:9780312293222

Release Date:November 2002

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:287 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 8.0"

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