The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry

by Tim Woods

Book Overview

This book situates Louis Zukofsky's poetics (and the lineage of Objectivist poetics more broadly) within a set of ethical concerns in American poetic modernism. The book makes a strong case for perceiving Zukofsky as a missing key figure within this ethical matrix of modernism. Viewing Zukofsy's poetry through the lens of the theoretical work of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, Woods argues for an ethical genealogy of American poetics leading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349633925
• ISBN13: 9781349633920
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"