Changing Subjects
Digressions in Modern American Poetry
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 July 2012
- ISBN 9780199791026
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 155x236x20 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Changing Subjects contends that major American poets-such as Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, and Lyn Hejinian-transformed verse and even changed conceptions of modern subjectivity by exploiting an ordinary rhetorical device, ubiquitous in spoken language: the digression.
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Digression is widely considered a mark of disordered or evasive discourse. Modern legal, philosophical, and political writing largely disavows this trope, regarding it as a departure from the model of rational exposition institutionalized under the Enlightenment. And yet, as the rhetorical figure of digression has grown increasingly marginalized within the decorum of public discourse, it has come to occupy a central position in the private discursive world of poetry. Changing Subjects outlines an anatomy of 'the excursus' within twentieth-century American poetics; moving from aesthetics to the archive to narratology to theories of identity, this study considers the various spheres in which American writers of the period revise prior models of purposeful discourse by cultivating a poetics of digression in the modern poem. The opening section considers the manner in which Wallace Stevens employs digression within the ars poetica genre to deconstruct aesthetic theory under High Modernism; the second chapter examines Marianne Moore's use of the excursus to organize archival knowledge in the Progressive poetry of instruction; the third section turns to Lyn Hejinian's construction of a digressive narratology intended to unsettle master-narratives of the Cold War era; the fourth chapter treats digression as a strategy for fashioning the self in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Frank O'Hara; and the book concludes with a survey of "Elliptical" strategies employed by a new generation of poets, writing in the wake of John Ashbery's aleatory craft, who seek to extend the digressive project of American poetry into the 21st Century.
Focusing on the related concepts of digression and drift, Reddy makes a deeply impressive case for a creative continuum among some of America's most significant and challenging poets from Whitman through Stevens to Moore, Ashbery, O'Hara and Hejinian, among others. He grounds his project not only in certain writings of Foucault, but also in aspects of Enlightenment thought, and thereby illuminates an exploratory, constantly metamorphosing stance toward the world and experience, one that poetry is singularly equipped to offer.
Table of Contents:
I. "It Must Change ": the Art of Digression
in Twentieth-Century American Poetry
II. "To Explain Grace Requires a Curious Hand ":
Marianne Moore's Interdisciplinary Digressions
III. Changing the Szujet: Lyn Hejinian's Digressive
Narratology and the Writing of History
IV. Digression Personified: Whitman, the New
York School, and the Drift of Poetry
V. New Digressions: John Ashbery and the
Changing Subjects of the Twenty-First Century
VI. Works Cited
