Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetr
Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry by Srikanth Reddy
English | July 12, 2012 | ISBN: 0199791023 | 208 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | July 12, 2012 | ISBN: 0199791023 | 208 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
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 for the making of modern poetry.