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Paperback The Point Is to Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present Book
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ISBN: 0817354085

ISBN13: 9780817354084

The Point Is to Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present

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A preeminent critic maps the frontier of contemporary poetry. In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. He focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present rather than as a legacy of the...

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