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Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 5, 2006
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Dec 14, 2017
UMI Dissertation Services eBooks, 1998
Cambridge University Press eBooks, May 24, 2012
Modernism/modernity, 2002
Modernism/modernity, 2002
The foremost example of a contemporary American avant-garde poetryat least as far as American ac... more The foremost example of a contemporary American avant-garde poetryat least as far as American academics seem to be concernedis the body of writing that, since the brief run of the journal L= A= N= G= U= A= G= E in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has come to be ...
Modernism/modernity, 2003
Introduction: modernism's new literalism modernism/postmodernism "As we move into the twenty-firs... more Introduction: modernism's new literalism modernism/postmodernism "As we move into the twenty-first century," observes Marjorie Perloff in a recent book, "the modern/postmodern divide has emerged as more apparent than real." 1 Coming not only from a distinguished critic, but also the foremost academic champion of an avant-garde that-whatever disagreements its individual members have about their place in postmodernism-has defined itself against modernism, this observation is a striking one. After all, the divide once seemed crucial to many literary historians, including Perloff herself. Why now does it seem irrelevant, or perhaps more to the point, why did it use to seem so fundamental? What was the crucial difference between modernism and postmodernism? That is, what is the difference between, say, T. S. Eliot or Wallace Stevens and the poets most often identified with postmodernism, particularly those affiliated with the language movement in American poetry (Charles
ELH, 1997
For Gertrude Stein questions of identity--not only of persons, but of nations and literatures--fu... more For Gertrude Stein questions of identity--not only of persons, but of nations and literatures--function within a more general problematic surrounding the nature of wholeness. What counts as a whole entails both the ontological question of what makes something whole ...
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 5, 2006
American Literary History, 2013
This project is about the persistence of lyric in the last half century, a persistence that I hav... more This project is about the persistence of lyric in the last half century, a persistence that I have come to think of as striking for several reasons: first, because it has taken place despite periodic and important attacks on the lyric; second, because as it has increasingly come to seem to me, those attacks have themselves functioned as part of the apparatus that keeps lyric going; and third (the last thing I came to realize but probably the most obvious), because what’s at stake in lyric’s persistence is something like the political economy of the poem in our time. And I should also say—to give some content, even if only anecdotal, to the juxtaposition of grand abstractions like “political economy” and “function of poetry in our time”—that this project has been conceived and is being written in a time when the conditions under which academic work is performed are being radically transformed. By which I mean that, at institutions like my own (the University of Illinois at Chicago), professors in the humanities are asked to perform increasingly like a cross between business managers and clerks rather than literary critics and historians. And it has increasingly seemed important to me that the conditions under which many of us now write should also be a part of what we write about. By the lyric, I mean the most generalized idea of the genre as it has been passed down from edition to edition of our literary
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 5, 2006
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 5, 2006
American Literary History, Dec 5, 2006
Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr's 2002 anthology, Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where L... more Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr's 2002 anthology, Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language, announces itself in part as the product of a conference. While plenty of volumes published by academic presses (as this one is) have had similar origins, ...
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 5, 2006
We have used the rate of change of pulsation period for the hot (DOV) pre-white dwarf PG1159-035 ... more We have used the rate of change of pulsation period for the hot (DOV) pre-white dwarf PG1159-035 and the cool (DAV) white dwarf G117-B15A to measure their evolutionary time scales. We show that, for any multiperiodic star, we must take into account the effect of all pulsations simultaneously on the times of maximum of the pulsations to get reliable measurements of periods and phases.
Chicago Review, Sep 22, 2007
The governing tone of Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young's Numbers Trouble is indee... more The governing tone of Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young's Numbers Trouble is indeed one of troublein their words a combination of annoyance and confusionat what strikes them as a serious mistake about the current situation of women poetsthe very situation, ...
From Modernism to Postmodernism, 2006
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 5, 2006
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Dec 14, 2017
UMI Dissertation Services eBooks, 1998
Cambridge University Press eBooks, May 24, 2012
Modernism/modernity, 2002
Modernism/modernity, 2002
The foremost example of a contemporary American avant-garde poetryat least as far as American ac... more The foremost example of a contemporary American avant-garde poetryat least as far as American academics seem to be concernedis the body of writing that, since the brief run of the journal L= A= N= G= U= A= G= E in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has come to be ...
Modernism/modernity, 2003
Introduction: modernism's new literalism modernism/postmodernism "As we move into the twenty-firs... more Introduction: modernism's new literalism modernism/postmodernism "As we move into the twenty-first century," observes Marjorie Perloff in a recent book, "the modern/postmodern divide has emerged as more apparent than real." 1 Coming not only from a distinguished critic, but also the foremost academic champion of an avant-garde that-whatever disagreements its individual members have about their place in postmodernism-has defined itself against modernism, this observation is a striking one. After all, the divide once seemed crucial to many literary historians, including Perloff herself. Why now does it seem irrelevant, or perhaps more to the point, why did it use to seem so fundamental? What was the crucial difference between modernism and postmodernism? That is, what is the difference between, say, T. S. Eliot or Wallace Stevens and the poets most often identified with postmodernism, particularly those affiliated with the language movement in American poetry (Charles
ELH, 1997
For Gertrude Stein questions of identity--not only of persons, but of nations and literatures--fu... more For Gertrude Stein questions of identity--not only of persons, but of nations and literatures--function within a more general problematic surrounding the nature of wholeness. What counts as a whole entails both the ontological question of what makes something whole ...
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 5, 2006
American Literary History, 2013
This project is about the persistence of lyric in the last half century, a persistence that I hav... more This project is about the persistence of lyric in the last half century, a persistence that I have come to think of as striking for several reasons: first, because it has taken place despite periodic and important attacks on the lyric; second, because as it has increasingly come to seem to me, those attacks have themselves functioned as part of the apparatus that keeps lyric going; and third (the last thing I came to realize but probably the most obvious), because what’s at stake in lyric’s persistence is something like the political economy of the poem in our time. And I should also say—to give some content, even if only anecdotal, to the juxtaposition of grand abstractions like “political economy” and “function of poetry in our time”—that this project has been conceived and is being written in a time when the conditions under which academic work is performed are being radically transformed. By which I mean that, at institutions like my own (the University of Illinois at Chicago), professors in the humanities are asked to perform increasingly like a cross between business managers and clerks rather than literary critics and historians. And it has increasingly seemed important to me that the conditions under which many of us now write should also be a part of what we write about. By the lyric, I mean the most generalized idea of the genre as it has been passed down from edition to edition of our literary
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 5, 2006
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 5, 2006
American Literary History, Dec 5, 2006
Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr's 2002 anthology, Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where L... more Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr's 2002 anthology, Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language, announces itself in part as the product of a conference. While plenty of volumes published by academic presses (as this one is) have had similar origins, ...
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 5, 2006
We have used the rate of change of pulsation period for the hot (DOV) pre-white dwarf PG1159-035 ... more We have used the rate of change of pulsation period for the hot (DOV) pre-white dwarf PG1159-035 and the cool (DAV) white dwarf G117-B15A to measure their evolutionary time scales. We show that, for any multiperiodic star, we must take into account the effect of all pulsations simultaneously on the times of maximum of the pulsations to get reliable measurements of periods and phases.
Chicago Review, Sep 22, 2007
The governing tone of Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young's Numbers Trouble is indee... more The governing tone of Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young's Numbers Trouble is indeed one of troublein their words a combination of annoyance and confusionat what strikes them as a serious mistake about the current situation of women poetsthe very situation, ...
From Modernism to Postmodernism, 2006