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  • Economies of Scale

    Financialization and Contemporary North American Poetry

    by Ann Keniston ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers the first sustained study of the ways 21st century North American poems engage with financialization. It argues that recent poems about economics not only discuss but enact concerns with containment and agency essential to the contemporary financialized economy by manipulating the seemingly old-fashioned figures of synecdoche (the representation of the whole by the part) and ... Read more

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  • Ethics After Poststructuralism

    A Critical Reader

    Series series Ethics and Culture
    The present era of economic devastation, legacies of colonization and imperialism, climate change and habitat loss, calls for a new understanding of ethics. These essays on otherness, responsibility and hospitality raise urgent questions. Contributors range from the prominent--including Levinas, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben--to recent theorists such as Judith Butler, ... Read more

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  • The New American Poetry of Engagement

    A 21st Century Anthology

    Edited by Ann Keniston, Jeffrey Gray ...
    This anthology of poetry collects 21st century American works by both established and emerging poets that deal with the public events, government policies, ecological and political threats, economic uncertainties, and large-scale violence that have largely defined the century to date. But these 138 poems by 50 poets do not simply describe, lament, or bear witness to contemporary events; they also ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Literature after 9/11

    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be recombined and set into dialogue with one another as it explores 9/11’s effects on literature and literature’s attempts to convey 9/11. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Overheard Voices

    Address and Subjectivity in Postmodern American Poetry

    by Ann Keniston ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Overheard Voices examines poetic address and in particular apostrophe (the address of absent or inanimate others) in the work of four post-World War II American poets, with a focus on loss, desire, figuration, audience, and subjectivity. By approaching these crucial issues from an unexpected angle--through a study of the seldom-examined lyric "you"--Overheard Voices offers new insight into both ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The News from Poems

    Essays on the 21st-Century American Poetry of Engagement

    The News from Poems examines a subgenre of recent American poetry that closely engages with contemporary political and social issues. This “engaged” poetry features a range of aesthetics and focuses on public topics from climate change, to the aftermath of recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the increasing corporatization of U.S. culture.The News from Poems brings together newly commissioned ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Ghostly Figures

    Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry

    by Ann Keniston ...
    Series series Contemp North American Poetry
    From Sylvia Plath’s depictions of the Holocaust as a group of noncohering “bits” to AIDS elegies’ assertions that the dead posthumously persist in ghostly form and Susan Howe’s insistence that the past can be conveyed only through juxtaposed “scraps,” the condition of being too late is one that haunts post-World War II American poetry. This is a poetry saturated with temporal delay, partial ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Close Listening

    Poetry and the Performed Word

    Edited by Charles Bernstein ...
    Close Listening brings together seventeen strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself, critical attention to modern and postmodern poetry performance has been surprisingly slight. This volume, featuring work by critics and poets such as ... Read more

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  • Ex Libris

    100+ Books to Read and Reread

    **Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to her and that help illuminate the world we live in today—with beautiful illustrations throughout.“A book tailormade for bibliophiles.”—Oprah Winfrey“An ebullient celebration of books and reading.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)**In the introduction to her new ... Read more

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

    From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative, clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from established classics to the controversies of current theory. Each chapter offers a conversational, step-by-step explanation of a single ... Read more

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  • Narratology

    Introduction to the Theory of Narrative

    by Mieke Bal ...
    Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills years of study of the ways in which we understand both literary and non-literary works. In this ... Read more

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