The Point is to Change it: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present

The Point is to Change it: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present McGann Jerome J. Wydawca: The University of Alabama Press Data wydania: 2007 ISBN: 9780817354084 Liczba stron: 288 Format: 158 x 228 x 18 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: Argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. This book focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present.