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  • Unimportant Clerks

    The New York School Poets and the Culture of Bureaucracy

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    Examines the ambivalent, often critical relationship of the New York School poets to bureaucratic culture and the conditions of work.Unimportant Clerks identifies a central tension in the writing of the New York School poets: at times their poetry replicates the ideology of bureaucracy while at others—and more persistently—it repudiates related principles of efficiency, routine, and regimentation. ... Leer más

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  • Negative Theology and Utopian Thought in Contemporary American Poetry

    Determined Negations

    de Jason Lagapa ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the utopian imagination in contemporary American poetry and the ways in which experimental poets formulate a utopian poetics by adopting the rhetorical principles of negative theology, which proposes using negative statements as a means of attesting to the superior, unrepresentable being of God. With individual chapters on works by such poets as Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, ... Leer más

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  • On Women

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  • Better Living Through Criticism

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  • The Minimal Self

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  • The Limits of Critique

    de Rita Felski ...
    "Felski frees critics from relying on critique as the gatekeeper of literary studies and offers a prescient guide to life in a postcritical world." — Los Angeles Review of BooksWhy must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines ... Leer más

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  • The Art of Life

    In our individualized society we are all artists of life – whether we know it or not, will it or not and like it or not, by decree of society if not by our own choice. In this society we are all expected, rightly or wrongly, to give our lives purpose and form by using our own skills and resources, even if we lack the tools and materials with which artists' studios need to be equipped for the ... Leer más

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  • Nihilistic Times

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    de Wendy Brown ...
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  • The Idea of Culture

    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around it. ... Leer más

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  • Mass Communication and American Social Thought

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