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Showing 1 - 12 of 15 results for “marjorie perloff”
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  • Infrathin

    An Experiment in Micropoetics

    by Marjorie Perloff ...
    Esteemed literary critic Marjorie Perloff reconsiders the nature of the poetic, examining its visual, grammatical, and sound components.The "infrathin" was Marcel Duchamp's playful name for the most minute shade of difference: that between the report of a gunshot and the appearance of the bullet hole, or between two objects in a series made from the same mold. "Eat" is not the same thing as "ate." ... Read more

    Was $23.99 CAD Now $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Differentials

    Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

    by Marjorie Perloff ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    A new collection of essays from a distinguished critic of contemporary poetryMarjorie Perloff is one of the foremost critics of contemporary American poetry writing today. Her works are credited by many with creating and sustaining new critical interest not only in the work of major modernist poets such as Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Williams but also in the postwar tradition of American poetic ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Edge of Irony

    Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

    by Marjorie Perloff ...
    Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the geographical entity into which they had been born: in 1918, the empire was dissolved overnight, leaving Austria a small, fragile republic that ... Read more

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  • Poetics in a New Key

    Interviews and Essays

    by Marjorie Perloff ...
    Marjorie Perloff writes in her preface to Poetics in a New Key that when she learned David Jonathan Y. Bayot wanted to publish a collection of her interviews and essays, she was "at once honored and mystified." But to Perloff's surprise and her readers' delight, the resulting assembly not only presents an accessible and provocative introduction to Perloff's critical thought, but also highlights ... Read more

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  • Wittgenstein's Ladder

    Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary

    by Marjorie Perloff ...
    "[Perloff] has brilliantly adapted Wittgenstein's conception of meaning and use to an analysis of contemporary language poetry." —Linda Voris, Boston ReviewMarjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously ... Read more

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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Odyssey

    The Great War and the Writing of the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus

    by Radmila Schweitzer, Marjorie Perloff, Ray Monk, Knut Olav Åmås, Urszula Idziak-Smoczynska, Martin Pilch, Xenia Baumann, Alfred Schmidt, Ian Ground ...
    Translated by Sebastian Smallshaw ...
    Charts Wittgenstein’s intellectual development, personal struggles, and movements from Vienna to Cambridge and Norway, and to the battlegrounds of WWI, where he completed what was destined to become the most influential philosophy book of the 20th century.Ludwig Wittgenstein’s way to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of the ground-breaking works in the history of philosophy, can rightly be ... Read more

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  • Circling the Canon, Volume I

    The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1969-1994

    by Marjorie Perloff ...
    Series series Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics
    One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years. Circling the Canon, Volume I covers roughly the first half of Perloff’s career, beginning with her first ever review, on Anthony Hecht’s The Hard Hours. The reviews in this volume, culled from a wide range of scholarly ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Circling the Canon, Volume II

    The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff,1995-2017

    by Marjorie Perloff ...
    Series series Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics
    One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years. Circling the Canon, Volume II focuses on the second half of her prolific career, showcasing reviews from 1995 through her 2017 reconsiderations of Jonathan Culler’s theory of the lyric and William Empson’s classic Seven Types ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Transpoetic Exchange

    Haroldo de Campos, Octavio Paz, and Other Multiversal Dialogues

    by Marília Librandi, Jamille Pinheiro Dias, Tom Winterbottom, Enrico Mario Santí, João Adolfo Hansen, Marjorie Perloff, Antonio Cicero, Luiz Costa-Lima0, Odile Cisneros1, Charles A. Perrone2, Kenneth David Jackson3, Benedito Nunes4, Jerome Rothenberg5, Keijiro Suga6, André Vallias7, Charles Bernstein8 ...
    Series series Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
    Transpoetic Exchange illuminates the poetic interactions between Octavio Paz (1914-1998) and Haroldo de Campos (1929-2003) from three perspectives--comparative, theoretical, and performative. The poem Blanco by Octavio Paz, written when he was ambassador to India in 1966, and Haroldo de Campos’ translation (or what he calls a “transcreation”) of that poem, published as Transblanco in 1986, as ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The History of Futurism

    The Precursors, Protagonists, and Legacies

    by Günter Berghaus, Monica Biasiolo, Francesca Bravi, Sascha Bru, Silvia Contarini, Eleonora Conti, Patricia Gaborik, Laura Greco, Kyle Hall, Stefano Magni, Florian Mussgnug, Davide Podavini, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Beatrice Sica, Teresa Spignoli, Dirk Vanden Berghe, Federico Luisetti, Marjorie Perloff, Walter L. Adamson ...
    Futurism began as an artistic and social movement in early twentieth-century Italy. Until now, much of the scholarship available in English has focused only on a single individual or art form. This volume seeks to present a more complete picture of the movement by exploring the history of the movement, the events leading up to the movement, and the lasting impact it has had as well as the ... Read more

    $78.89 CAD

  • Gunslinger

    by Edward Dorn ...
    Fiftieth Anniversary Edition"Gunslinger is a fundamental American masterpiece."---Thomas McGuaneThis fiftieth anniversary edition commemorates Edward Dorn’s masterpiece, Gunslinger, a comic, anti-epic critique of American capitalism that still resonates today. Set in the American West, the Gunslinger, his talking horse Claude Lévi-Strauss, a saloon madam named Lil, and the narrator called “I” set ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Yoko Tawada

    Voices from Everywhere

    by Hiltrud Arens, Bernard Banoun, Bettina Brandt, Suzuko Mousel Knott, Christina Kraenzle, Margaret Mitsutani, Marjorie Perloff, Keijiro Suga, Reiko Tachibana, Yasemin Yildiz ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    Yöko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Yöko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. Douglas Slaymaker has collected a range of essays including many that were featured at the 2006 MLA Conference, where a presidential panel featuring Yöko Tawada was organized by MLA President Marjorie Perloff, who has contributed a ... Read more

    $62.29 CAD