The Poetics of Indeterminacy. Rimbaud to Cage.

Perloff, Marjorie

ISBN 10: 0810117649 / ISBN 13: 9780810117648

Published by Northwestern University Press, 1999

About this Item

This work argues that the map of modernist poetry needs to be redrawn so as to include a central tradition that cannot properly be located within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition that dominated the early-20th century. Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500. . 2000. New ed. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Poetics of Indeterminacy. Rimbaud to Cage.
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810117649
• ISBN 13: 9780810117648
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In her seminal study, first published in 1981, Marjorie Perloff argues that the map of Modernist poetry needs to be redrawn to include a central tradition which cannot properly be situated within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition dominating the early twentieth century.

About the Author

MARJORIE PERLOFF is the Sadie Dernham Patek professor of Humanities at Stanford University. She is the author of many books of literary criticism, including Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric and The Dance of the Intellect, both published by Northwestern University Press.