Reading Error

Nerys Williams

ISBN 10: 303911025X / ISBN 13: 9783039110254

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Nov 2007, 2007

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Neuware -This book considers the development of the lyric form in recent American poetry of the past three decades. By concentrating on the writing of three poets associated with language writing, Charles Bernstein, Michael Palmer and Lyn Hejinian, the discussion considers the attempts of contemporary poetry to problematise the identification of the lyric as a static model of subjectivity. Central considerations motivating the discussion are: How do contemporary lyric poets negotiate the propositions posed by postmodern thought What reading of lyricism can one formulate once the self is displaced from centre stage and an ¿experience¿ of language takes its place The book proposes that an aesthetic of error enables us to approach the reconfiguration of the lyric in recent innovative poetry. Drawing from elements of modernist poetic practice, psychoanalytic theory, language philosophy and critical theory this book pursues methods for understanding the demands placed upon the reader of contemporary poetry. 268 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading Error
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Nov 2007
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 303911025X
• ISBN 13: 9783039110254
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

This book considers the development of the lyric form in recent American poetry of the past three decades. By concentrating on the writing of three poets associated with language writing, Charles Bernstein, Michael Palmer and Lyn Hejinian, the discussion considers the attempts of contemporary poetry to problematise the identification of the lyric as a static model of subjectivity. Central considerations motivating the discussion are: How do contemporary lyric poets negotiate the propositions posed by postmodern thought? What reading of lyricism can one formulate once the self is displaced from centre stage and an 'experience' of language takes its place? The book proposes that an aesthetic of error enables us to approach the reconfiguration of the lyric in recent innovative poetry. Drawing from elements of modernist poetic practice, psychoanalytic theory, language philosophy and critical theory this book pursues methods for understanding the demands placed upon the reader of contemporary poetry.

About the Author

The Author: Originally from West Wales, Nerys Williams lectures in American Literature at the English Department in University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the recipient of an Irish Fulbright Award.