Modernism the Morning After

Author:   Bob Perelman
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
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9780817358891


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 April 2017
Format:   Paperback
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Modernism the Morning After scrutinizes a number of long-held modernist dogmas in order to articulate a more capacious model for thinking about modernism, past, present, and future. Modernism the Morning After is a superb, lively, engaging series of essays and talks, dating from 1995 to 2016, by the eminent scholar, critic, and poet Bob Perelman. Throughout his career, Perelman has focused on the persistence of modernist ambition in poetry, with all of its admirable articulations and tragicomic short-circuits. Poetry, it turns out, is not simply “news that stays news,” as Ezra Pound postulated. Instead, as Perelman demonstrates, poetry often gropes toward whatever news can be found in the broader contexts of public speech—the cultural commons, the almost-real or much-too-real language of people and our hyperactive media. Working in a variety of modes from the poetic to the dramatic to the conversational, and ranging across an expansive historical register from Dickinson, Whitman, and Dunbar in the nineteenth century to Kenneth Goldsmith and Stephen Colbert in the twenty-first, Perelman’s readings are unfailingly illuminating and, in many cases, his witty expositions take us strikingly close to the original intent of the text concerned. Perelman also places intermittent, yet artful, pressure on some basic questions about the very nature of poetry: What does the transcription of poems tell us about them?; How do hoaxes like the Ern Malley affair compel us to reconsider fundamental assumptions about what constitutes “authentic” poetry?; And, how does the bathetic register relate to tones and idiom in recent poetic production? In Modernism the Morning After, Perelman writes as a poet, teacher, and critic, addressing a broad audience of readers and writers without choosing between them, inviting all to consider along with him modernism’s future through a dynamic consideration of its past.

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Author:   Bob Perelman
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
Imprint:   The University of Alabama Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.441kg
ISBN:  

9780817358891


ISBN 10:   0817358897
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 April 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Modernism the Morning After is consistently illuminating and, in many cases, Perelman's witty expositions take us stunningly close to the grain of the text concerned. - Peter Nicholls, author of George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism and Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics, and Writings-A Study of the Cantos


Perelman s <i>Modernism the Morning After</i> is a superb, lively, engaging series of essays. His wonderful mixture of unpredictable insights, humor, and superb research make for a great read! <i> </i>Hank Lazer, author of <i>The New Spirit</i>, <i>Poems Hidden in Plain View</i>, and <i>Lyric & Spirit</i> (essays), and editor of <i>What Is a Poet?</i>


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Bob Perelman is a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published more than fifteen volumes of poetry, most recently The Future of Memory and Ten to One: Selected Poems. Among his critical books are The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writingand Literary History and The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky.

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