American Hybrid Poetics: Gender, Mass Culture, And Form
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Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE ) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: American Hybrid Poetics: Gender, Mass Culture, And Form ISBN13: 9780813564654 ISBN10: 0813564654 Author: Robbins, Amy Moorman (Author) Description: American Hybrid Poetics Explores The Ways In Which Hybrid Poetics--A Playful Mixing Of Disparate Formal And Aesthetic Strategies--Have Been The Driving Force In The Work Of A Historically And Culturally Diverse Group Of Women Poets Who Are Part Of A Robust Tradition In Contesting The Dominant Cultural Order Amy Moorman Robbins Examines The Ways In Which Five Poets--Gertrude Stein, Laura Mullen, Alice Notley, Harryette Mullen, And Claudia Rankine--Use Hybridity As An Implicitly Political Strategy To Interrupt Mainstream American Language, Literary Genres, And Visual Culture, And Expose The Ways In Which Mass Culture In The Twentieth And Twenty-First Centuries Has Had A Powerfully Standardizing Impact On The Collective American Imagination By Forcing Encounters Between Incompatible Traditions--Consumer Culture With The Avant-Garde, Low Culture Forms With Experimental Poetics, Prose Poetry With Linguistic Subversiveness--These Poets Bring Together Radically Competing Ideologies And Highlight Their Implications For Lived Experience Robbins Argues That It Is Precisely Because These Poets Have Mixed Forms That Their Work Has Gone Largely Unnoticed By Leading Members And Critics In Experimental Poetry Circles Binding: Hardcover, Hardcover Publisher: Rutgers University Press Publication Date: 2014-07-21 Weight: 0.92 lbs Dimensions: 0.56'' H x 9'' L x 6'' W Number of Pages: 188 Language: English
