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Reading the Modernist Long Poem
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Reading the Modernist Long Poem : John Cage, Charles Olson and the Indeterminacy of Longform Poetics

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 1501363786
ISBN-13 9781501363788
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jan 14th, 2021
Print length 240 Pages
Weight 502 grams
Dimensions 15.90 x 23.50 x 2.30 cms
Ksh 17,100.00
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How do readers approach the enigmatic and unnavigable modernist long poem? Taking as the form's exemplars the highly influential but critically contentious poetries of John Cage and Charles Olson, this book considers indeterminacy – the fundamental feature of the long poem – by way of its analogues in musicology, mycology, cybernetics and philosophy. It addresses features of these works that figure broadly in the long poem tradition, such as listing, typography, archives, mediation and mereology, while articulating how both poets broke with the longform poetic traditions of the early 1900s. Brendan C. Gillott argues for Cage’s and Olson’s centrality to these traditions – in developing, critiquing and innovating on the longform poetics of the past, their work revolutionized the longform poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries.
How do readers approach the enigmatic and unnavigable modernist long poem? Taking as the form''s exemplars the highly influential but critically contentious poetries of John Cage and Charles Olson, this book considers indeterminacy – the fundamental feature of the long poem – by way of its analogues in musicology, mycology, cybernetics and philosophy. It addresses features of these works that figure broadly in the long poem tradition, such as listing, typography, archives, mediation and mereology, while articulating how both poets broke with the longform poetic traditions of the early 1900s. Brendan C. Gillott argues for Cage’s and Olson’s centrality to these traditions – in developing, critiquing and innovating on the longform poetics of the past, their work revolutionized the longform poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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