The Poetics of Indeterminacy

Rimbaud to Cage

Marjorie Perloff author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Published:30th Dec '99

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The Poetics of Indeterminacy cover

This study, first published in 1981, argues that the map of modernist poetry needs to be redrawn so as to include a central tradition that cannot properly be located within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition that dominated the early-20th century. Marjorie Perloff traces this tradition from its early ""French connection"" in the poetry of Rimbaud and Apollinaire as well as in Cubist, Dada and early Surrealist painting; through its various manifestations in the work of Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound; to such postmodern ""landscapes without depth"" as the French/English language constructions of Samuel Beckett, the elusive dreamscapes of John Ashbery, and the performance works of David Antin and John Cage.

ISBN: 9780810117648

Dimensions: 229mm x 153mm x 21mm

Weight: 580g

368 pages