Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol

by Adam Frank, Adam Frank, Adam Frank

Book Overview

Transferential Poetics presents a method for bringing theories of affect to the study of poetics. Informed by the thinking of Silvan Tomkins, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion, it offers new interpretations of the poetics of four major American artists: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Andy Warhol. The author emphasizes the close, reflexive attention each of these artists pays to the transfer of feeling between text and reader, or composition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823262472
• ISBN13: 9780823262472
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: American Literatures Initiative
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"