Changing Subjects

by Srikanth Reddy

Theoretical accounts of modern American poetry often regard literary texts as the expression of a subjectivity irremediably fractured by the dividing practices of power. In Changing Subjects, Srikanth Reddy seeks to redress our critical bias toward a fatalistic poetics of rupture and fragmentation by foregrounding a fluent tradition of writers from Walt Whitman to John Ashbery who explore digression, rather than disjunction, as a rhetorical strategy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199791023
• ISBN13: 9780199791026
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"