Exploring the boundaries of one of the most contested fields of literary study—a field that in fact shares territory with philology, aesthetics, cultural theo

"This book examines individually and collectively poets widely recognized as formal and linguistic innovators. Why do their words appear in unconventional order

Addresses the problem of silence in contemporary experimental poetry and examines silence as an aesthetic strategy in itself. The result is an extended meditati

Fourteen essays on epic, oral and literary, from ancient to modern, from the Americas to India.

Introduction: differential reading -- Crisis in the humanities? Reconfiguring literary study for the Twenty First Century -- Cunning passages and contrived corr