Screen LibraryThe testimonies of Russian and American postmodern poetry : reference, trauma, and history /
"This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalita...
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Bloomsbury Academic,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
2016. ©2015 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian order. Albena Vassileva argues that, because of the sudden invalidation of a reality that had been largely seen as unattained and everlasting, this shift remained secluded from the mind and totally resistant to cognition, thus causing a collectively traumatic psychological experience. The book proceeds by inquiring into a school of contemporary American poetry that has been likewise read as cut off from reality. Executing a comparative analysis, Vassileva advances a new understanding of this poetry as a testimony to the overwhelming and traumatic impact of contemporary media, which have assailed the mind with far more signals than it can register, digest and furnish with semantic weight"-- |
| Carrier Form: | 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-290) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781501322662 (paperback) : 1501322664 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PG3056 |
| CLC: | I512.072 |
| Call Number: | I512.072/L975 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Witnessing History: The Voice of Postmodern Poetry -- PART 1: Post-Communist Traumas, Post-Modernist Testimonies: Reference, History, and Memory in Russian Conceptualism and Metarealism -- 1. The Problem of Reference in Russian Conceptualism ; 2. Parallel Developments in Other Post-Communist Literatures: A Bulgarian Interlude ; 3. Toward a Meta Understanding of Reality: The Problem of Reference in Russian Metarealist Poetry -- PART 2: Trauma, Reference, and Media Technology in postmodern American poetry: The Testimonies of Language writing. 4. The Problem of Reference in Language Poetry ; 5. Rebelling against Poetic Standards: The Defiant Verbal Aesthetics of Language Poetry ; 6. The Emplacement of Language Poetry and Art in Information-Saturated Environments ; 7. Language Poetry as a Discourse of Trauma ; 8. The Corporeal Response to the Experience of Trauma ; Conclusion: Trauma and History -- Bibliography -- Index. |