Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology

Taking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day "mechanize" poetry as modern industry has mechanized the world, Carrie Noland explores poetic attempts to redefine the relationship between subjective expression and mechanical reproduction, high...

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Main Author: Noland, Carrie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2022]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691227542?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691227542?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691227542?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691227542?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691227542?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691227542?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691227542?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691227542
Summary:Taking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day "mechanize" poetry as modern industry has mechanized the world, Carrie Noland explores poetic attempts to redefine the relationship between subjective expression and mechanical reproduction, high art and the world of things. Noland builds upon close readings to construct a tradition of diverse lyricists--from Arthur Rimbaud, Blaise Cendrars, and René Char to contemporary performance artists Laurie Anderson and Patti Smith--allied in their concern with the nature of subjectivity in an age of mechanical reproduction
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (280 pages) 12 halftones
ISBN:9780691227542
DOI:10.1515/9780691227542