... , 2002 . ---. “ The True Hollywood Left .” 2007 . Lacan.com . May 2008 . < http://www.lacan.com/zizhollywood.htm > . CONSPIRACY, THEORY, GENRE: COLLECTING, THE PARALYSIS OF INTERPRETATION, AND LYRICAL TRUTH IN JOHN SAYLES'S SILVER CITY WESLEY BEAL, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA...

... of what's classed as “poetry.” [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma 2023 genre history novel lyric theory Ezra Pound Claudia Rankine It might sound familiar, the way Ezra Pound declined to debate the distinction between poetry and prose in “The Serious...

... in lyric theory struck me as unhelpful, because it makes her book surprisingly resistant to a key realization: that attention starts really mattering to both poetry and criticism in the era of mass media, consumerism, and the institutional study of literature. For this reader, the best chapters concerned...

... in the process: American verse cultures reemerge as the object of American poetry studies. * The formation of modern poetry is enriched, not simplified, by political debate and mass movements. So we learn from Left of Poetry, a book that ranges from lyric theory to Left literary studies, challenging in each...

... the biography of the poet and in its attention to the structure of lyric address, this chapter draws most explicitly on Culler, especially his Theory of the Lyric (2015). At the same time, Perlow extends Keston Sutherland s (2010: 122) observation that O Hara s poems are full of anonymity, Oren Izenberg s...

...Robert Bird COPYRIGHT © 2003 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2003 LYRIC RITUAL AND NARRATIVE MYTH IN RUSSIAN MODERNISM: THE CASE OF VIACHESLAV IVANOV ROBERT BIRD, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO At the height of the revolutionary fervor of 1905, a leading Russian symbol- ist issued...

...) notes the “absence of any kind of generic organization” in Grant’s anthology, which instead “allows one kind of lyrical exuberance to stand for all of modern poetry.”3 Duff’s larger project is to recover the copious amount of genre theory and generic diversity produced in the romantic period...

... with problems that Rich’s lyric commitments seek to make palpable and active in poetic discourse rather than to transcend. What Povinelli asks of contemporary critical theory’s ability to practice an “ethically informed politics” is what Rich’s poetry asks of itself: “To what are we committing ourselves...

...Katie Owens-Murphy Although we rely regularly on genre as a conceptual apparatus for our scholarship and course offerings, genre studies as a theory and methodology has never quite recovered from the opposition of Jacques Derrida, whose well-known essay “The Law of Genre” (1980) accused literary...

... the body to the heavens, heights, or skies recalls Platonic theories and myth in a complex collaboration with Protestantism. Nonetheless, it remains the case that soul migrates seamlessly into lyric poetry while abandoning other domains in the Enlightenment. This book makes the case that soul...

... have taught us about reading poems or to a poet or group of poets who involve us in their own reading. Given a common focus on poetry, these essays revisit the idea of lyric and its various attributes: individuality, originality, subjectivity, and feeling (especially in relation to tradition...

... of “novelism” (adjacent to notions like lyricism and essayism) as a flexible and mobile mode of associative world-building across the arts. We can see novelism at play in the intermedial history of how novelistic forms and concerns informed the cinematic genre of the essay film. By recovering that history...

...Michael Nicholson A critically neglected short poem that focuses on the ancient custom of stone giant building in Cumbria, William Wordsworth's “Rural Architecture” avoids the monumental permanence and transcendent universality so often associated with Lyrical Ballads . An expressly opaque “local...

... of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1982 . Garber Frederick . Wordsworth and the Poetry of Encounter . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1971 . Glen Heather . Vision and Disenchantment: Blake's Songs and Wordsworth's Lyrical...

..., modeled his critical practice in this respect on that of the New Critics. What's more, Levy claims, Clark associates close reading with the reading of poetry in particular. Poetry features only rarely in the history of modernism as retold by art historians, but as Clark writes, “Lyric cannot be expunged...

... living out evolving versions of the connected condition. As such, The Connected Condition forwards a way of doing media studies informed poetry criticism that has strong affinities with work outside of Romantic studies (Seth Perloff s The Poem Electric: Technology and the American Lyric [2018] comes...

... . Fraser Kathleen . 2000 . Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press . Friedman Susan Stanford . 1994 . “Craving Stories: Narrative and Lyric in Contemporary Theory and Women's Long Poems.” In Feminist Measures: Soundings...

...: A Theory of Poetry . New York : Oxford UP , 1973 . Foucault Michel . Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison . Trans. Sheridan Alan . New York : Vintage , 1979 . Gilbert Sandra M. Gubar Susan . The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century...

...Don Adams COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 WORKS CITED Adams Don . `` Ronald Firbank's Radical Pastorals .'' Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 35 , 1 ( 2002 ): 121 - 142 . Adorno Theodor . `` On Lyric Poetry and Society .'' In Notes...

... University, teaching in a cosmopolitan writing program. Inevitably her work has gone through changes. One of these is the gradual adoption of a practice of disjunction: there are hints of this in String Light (1991), a bolder experiment in the book- length Just Whistle (1993), and then, after the lyric...