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  • - An Experiment in Micropoetics
    by Marjorie Perloff
    £23.99

    Esteemed literary critic Marjorie Perloff reconsiders the nature of the poetic, examining its visual, grammatical, and sound components.

  • by Marjorie Perloff
    £104.49

  • - The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1995-2017
    by Marjorie Perloff
    £67.49

    One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years. Circling the Canon, Volume II focuses on the second half of her prolific career, showcasing reviews from 1995 to 2017.

  • - The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1969-1994
    by Marjorie Perloff
    £67.49

    One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years. Circling the Canon, Volume I covers roughly the first half of Perloff's career, beginning with her first ever review, on Anthony Hecht's The Hard Hours.

  • - Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire
    by Marjorie Perloff
    £22.99

    "An earlier version of chapter 1 appeared as "Avant-Garde in a Different Key: Karl Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind," Critical Inquiry 40, no. 2 (Winter 2014): 311-38."

  • - Interviews and Essays
    by Marjorie Perloff
    £19.49

    Presents an accessible introduction to Marjorie Perloff's critical thought. In this book, fourteen interviews cover a broad spectrum of topics in the study of poetry: its nature as a literary genre, its current state, and its relationship to art, politics, language, theory, and technology.

  • - Rimbaud to Cage
    by Marjorie Perloff
    £27.99

    This work 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.

  • - Composed in America
    by Marjorie Perloff
    £26.49

    When the avant-gardist John Cage died, he was already the subject of many interviews, memoirs and discussions of his contribution to music. This text includes a revisionist treatment of the way Cage himself has composed and been "composed" in America.

  • - Writing Poetry in the Age of Media
    by Marjorie Perloff
    £23.99

    This text considers what happens when the "natural speech" model inherited from the Modernist poets comes up against the "natural speech" of the "Donahue" talk show, or again, how visual poetics and verse forms are responding to the languages of billboards and sound bytes.

  • - Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary
    by Marjorie Perloff
    £26.49

    Marjorie Perloff, critic of 20th-century poetry, argues that Wittgenstein speaks to poets because he provides a way out of the impasse of high versus low discourse, demonstrating the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language.

  • by Marjorie Perloff
    £27.49

    Ranging from medieval Latin lyrics to a cyborg opera, sixteenth-century France to twentieth-century Brazil, romantic ballads to the contemporary avant-garde, this book explores such subjects as the translatability of lyric sound, the historical and cultural roles of rhyme, and the role of sound repetition in novelistic prose.

  • - Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, with a New Preface
    by Marjorie Perloff
    £27.49

    This examination of the flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in European art and literature of the twentieth century, offers considerations of futurist work from Russia to Italy.

  • - The "New" Poetics
    by Marjorie Perloff
    £30.99

    Argues that it is only at the turn of the 21st century that the powerful lessons of the avant-garde - an avant-garde cruelly disrupted by the Great War and subsequent political upheavals - were learned. This book offers readings of T S Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, and Velimir Khlebnikov. It examines various related poetic concerns.

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