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Title

Strategies of difference in modern poetry : case studies in poetic composition / edited by Pierre Lagayette.

Publication

Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

Lagayette, Pierre.

Description

179 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• This volume consists of a collection of essays, mostly by European scholars, on the ways modern poets have dealt with the crucial concept of "difference" in their practice of poetic composition. What is examined here through the works of Stevens, Roethke, Yeats, Pound, Ammons, Graham, Laviera, Reznikoff, and Kinsella is the range of strategies used in poetry to convey a sense of disruption, estrangement, disturbance, indeterminacy.
• The aim is to track down the many kinds of "difference" that these poets' works illustrate and the challenges they pose to the critic.

Subjects

• Difference (Philosophy) in literature
• Poetry, Modern > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Pierre Lagayette -- Lyric Form and Lyric Force: Yeats and the Limits of the Expressivist Tradition / Charles Altieri -- Epistemological Empathy: A. R. Ammons and Jorie Graham / Gudrun M. Grabher -- Lyrical Variation of Tone in Stevens's Poetry / Alain Suberchicot -- Wallace Stevens and Jean Wahl / Anne Luyat-Moore -- (Dys)functionings of Difference: The Intertext at Work in Theodore Roethke's "Four for Sir John Davies" / Axel Nesme -- The Author as Explicator in Wallace Stevens and Ezra Pound / Massimo Bacigalupo -- Charles Reznikoff: New World Poetics / Genevieve Cohen-Cheminet -- Tato Laviera's Nuyorican Poetry: The Choice of Bilingualism / Veronique Rauline and Tato Laviera -- Thomas Kinsella and the Poetry of Irish Difference / Taffy Martin.

ISBN

0838636985 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97039277

OCLC

• 37903494
• ocm37903494

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries