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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Louis Zukofsky"”.
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"Of things related": network assemblages in the longform poems of Muriel Rukeyser, Melvin Tolson, Langston Hughes and Louis Zukofsky
… Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (1961), and Louis Zukofsky’s “A” (1978). It is my argument that these longform poems evidence a balanced tension between the particular and the whole. This balanced tension is created through a heterogenous, multi-vocal assemblage of sourced material networked …
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"an identification and a plan for action to supplant a plan for action": EPIC Conventions Transformed in Williams, Zukofsky, and Olson
… American poems. William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, and Charles Olson are all, in their own ways, disciples of the Ezra Pound model of the epic, which is embodied in his most important work, The Cantos. Each of these authors, though, looks back further than Pound alone, reconfiguring …
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Kindness in Modernist American Poetry
… Stein, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen and Charles Reznikoff. Working within an understanding that no interpretation can be naïve, this thesis argues a case for Kindness as a “grammar of reading” that accounts for the readerly experience of the neophyte by …
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"and silence" : Lorine Niedecker and the life of poetry.
… of Pound or Williams, or the Objectivism of Louis Zukofsky. Firstly, I examine some of the choices Niedecker made as a practising poet, and suggest that these have affected not only the writing of her poetry but also its reception, especially with regard to her gender and marginality. The …
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Modernism, antisemitism and Jewish identity in the writing and publishing of John Rodker
… and two other Jewish writers, Carl Rakosi and Louis Zukofsky, who Pound published in The Exile (1927- 28), showing that Pound's interest in these writers was combined with an unease with them that played out in editorial decisions and means of framing their work. Chapter 5 examines Rodker's …
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Ambient Lyric: Apollinaire and the Social Imaginary of Twentieth-Century US Poetry
… noise and reception. In chapter two, it is Louis Zukofsky’s composition of the first English-language monograph on Apollinaire, in 1932, at a time when he was struggling to conceive of how his own poetry could present an adequate record of the escalating Great Depression. In chapter three, I …