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New Formalisms And Literary Theory, Bartholomew Brinkman
New Formalisms And Literary Theory, Bartholomew Brinkman
Bartholomew Brinkman
New Formalisms and Literary Theory examines the political motivations of a return to formalism. Together with our contributors, we want to propose and challenge the conception of New Formalism as an extension of contextual readings and as a 'mere' return to aesthetic readings. The essays gathered here encourage reflection upon New Formalism's points of intersection with other theoretical approaches and demand a reinstatement of form as the critic's central focus, form, that is, as it reflects a culture's creative imagination and historicizes itself within and against a politically charged background.
Imitations, Manipulations And Interpretations: Creative Writing In The Critical Classroom, Bartholomew Brinkman
Imitations, Manipulations And Interpretations: Creative Writing In The Critical Classroom, Bartholomew Brinkman
Bartholomew Brinkman
No abstract provided.
Scrapping Modernism: Marianne Moore And The Making Of The Modern Collage Poem, Bartholomew Brinkman
Scrapping Modernism: Marianne Moore And The Making Of The Modern Collage Poem, Bartholomew Brinkman
Bartholomew Brinkman
The scrapbook was an important vehicle for the chronicling of personal history and the negotiation of identity in a culture of mass print, frequently modeling other modern cultural and literary forms. This essay argues that Marianne Moore's early scrapbooks informed both the subject matter and the form of her developing collage poetry in their material display of juxtaposition, assemblage, pasting-over, anchoring, and enjambment. In doing so, it challenges the common critical notion that the collage poem was an exclusive extension of the visual avantgarde, pointing to a popular scrapbooking tradition as basis for poetic collage.
Movies, Modernity, And All That Jazz: Langston Hughes's Montage Of A Dream Deferred, Bartholomew Brinkman
Movies, Modernity, And All That Jazz: Langston Hughes's Montage Of A Dream Deferred, Bartholomew Brinkman
Bartholomew Brinkman
Presents literary criticism for the poem sequence "Montage of a Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes. Primary focus is given to depictions of jazz music, particularly bebop, as an essentially African American musical form within the sequence as well as Hughes' thoughts on movies. The anti-capitalist nature of the work is explained based on Hughes' critique of exclusionary U.S. mass culture.
Imitations, Manipulations, And Interpretations: Creative Writing In The Critical Classroom, Bartholomew Brinkman
Imitations, Manipulations, And Interpretations: Creative Writing In The Critical Classroom, Bartholomew Brinkman
Bartholomew Brinkman
No abstract provided.
Making Modern Poetry: Format, Genre And The Invention Of Imagism(E), Bartholomew Brinkman
Making Modern Poetry: Format, Genre And The Invention Of Imagism(E), Bartholomew Brinkman
Bartholomew Brinkman
Although much attention has recently been given to modern little magazines, critics largely have failed to consider how the bibliographical elements of these magazines were instrumental in their production and dissemination of poetic modernism. Focusing on Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, this article argues for the importance of these elements, showing how format leads to form. It contends that Poetry extended the poetic presentation already at work in middlebrow mass circulation magazines, turning the poem into an aesthetic object for contemplation isolated on the page and framed by a border of white space. Subsequently this promoted a consolidation of genre …