Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry

Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry
Author :
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 225
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781350021556
ISBN-13 : 1350021555
Rating : 4/5 (555 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry by : John Steen

Download or read book Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry written by John Steen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry has often been defined by its closure, its condensation of meaning and value into discrete, self-referential textual objects. Affect, Psychoanalysis and American Poetry challenges the dominant metaphor of poetic containers by turning to recent poetic texts that represent the contagious and uncontainable feelings of anxiety, grief, shame, and rage. From modernists Wallace Stevens to mid-century poets Randall Jarrell, Robert Creeley and Ted Berrigan, and finally to contemporary practitioners Aaron Kunin and Claudia Rankine, John Steen argues that new poetic techniques arise from the poetic productivity of negative affects, and that a new model of poetic value can be found in poems that are-instead of containers-permeable, social spaces of intimacy, attachment, and withdrawal. Drawing from object relations, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and affect theory, Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry finds poetry's singularity in its unique capacity to represent anew the transmissible, relational, and uncontainable valences of feeling that structure and destabilize social life.


Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry Related Books

Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: John Steen
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-12 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Poetry has often been defined by its closure, its condensation of meaning and value into discrete, self-referential textual objects. Affect, Psychoanalysis and
City Poems and American Urban Crisis
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Nate Mickelson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-15 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg to Miguel Algarín and Wanda Coleman, this groundbreaking book explores the ways in which contemporary poets hav
A Black Arts Poetry Machine
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: David Grundy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-07 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a cornerstone of the African American a
Lyric Pedagogy and Marxist-Feminism
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Samuel Solomon
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-07 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What is the political potential of poetry in the contemporary era? Exploring an often overlooked history of Marxist-Feminist poetics in post-war Britain – inc
Queer Troublemakers
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-08 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Irreverent and provoking, the figure of the 'queer troublemaker' is a disruptive force both poetically and politically. Tracing the genealogy of this figure in