Screen LibraryAttention equals life : the pursuit of the everyday in contemporary poetry and culture /
"Attention Equals Life examines why a quest to pay attention to daily life has increasingly become a central feature of both contemporary American poetry and the wider culture of which it is a part" --
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | [First Oxford University Press paperback edtion] |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=89b184f26a184a2fbbc29eb2dc7f8d48 |
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"Attention Equals Life examines why a quest to pay attention to daily life has increasingly become a central feature of both contemporary American poetry and the wider culture of which it is a part" -- |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xi, 364 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-346) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780199972159 9780190887407 |
| Index Number: | PS310 |
| CLC: | I712.072 |
| Contents: | Introduction: the poetics of everyday life since 1945 -- The crisis of attention, everyday life theory, and contemporary poetry -- "Each day so different, yet still alike": James Schuyler and the elusive everyday -- "Tthe tiny invites attention": A. R. Ammons's quotidian muse -- Writing the maternal everyday: Bernadette Mayer and her "daughters" (Hoa Nguyen, Susan Holbrook, Laynie Browne) -- "There is no content here, only dailiness": poetry as critique of everyday life in Ron Silliman's Ketjak -- Everyday life projects in contemporary poetry and culture (Kenneth Goldsmith, Claudia Rankine, Brenda Coultas, Harryette Mullen) -- Conclusion: Claudia Rankine's citizen and beyond. |