...Ben Glaser Lucy Alford , Forms of Poetic Attention , New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2020 by University of Oklahoma 2020 Genre, Vol. 53, No. 3 December 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8847188 © 2020 by University of Oklahoma Reviews Cluster: Poetics ben...

.... Relying on the sociological approach to eyewitness testimony developed by Renaud Dulong (notably in Le témoin oculaire [1998]), this article proposes a new understanding of poetic testimony, based neither on an overly broad notion of witnessing as living through an event or era, nor on a narrow...

... to the serial novel for several reasons. First, I will demonstrate that what some call Potter 's incoherence is evidence of Melville's lost faith in narrative; second, Potter is about war and politics, as is the poetry; and third, I will show that it was not until Melville faced the Civil War in a poetic form...

... University Press . In any case, compared to its achievements, the book's shortcomings are minor. Overall, Poetic Priesthood presents a set of astute readings of the religious purposes and formal methods of seventeenth-century verse. These readings are intelligent, imaginative, and detailed...

...Alanna Hickey Edgar Garcia , Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2020 by University of Oklahoma 2020 Genre, Vol. 53, No. 3 December 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8847201 © 2020...

...Gershun Avilez [email protected] Kevin Quashie , Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being , Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2021 . Copyright © 2022 by University of Oklahoma 2022 We are regularly faced with news accounts detailing violence against Black people...

...Walt Hunter [email protected] Ben Glaser , Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics , Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2022 by University of Oklahoma 2022 When I was in eighth grade, my Latin teacher pulled in the TV cart...

... some of the partial entrapments, partial resistances, and other kinds of playfulness between these binary poles; however, we now turn to look specifically at how these various port city narratives, their aesthetics, and their poetics can become integral to tourism and city branding. Les Roberts...

...Josephine Nock-Hee Park [email protected] Timothy Yu , Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia , Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021 . Copyright © 2022 by University of Oklahoma 2022 Hiroshima Vietnam Tule Lake —Janice...

... . Complete Poetry and Collected Prose . New York : The Library of America , 1982 . JAMES SCHUYLER'S PASTORAL POETICS D ON ADAMS, FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY "It is not experience which is experienced, but nature." John Dewey "It is all so natural, this artifice...

...Daniel Cross Turner COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 WORKS CITED Adorno Theodor . `` After Auschwitz '' ( 1949 ). Negative Dialectics . Trans. Ashton E. B. . New York : Continuum , 1973 . Attridge Derek . Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction . New...

... . Flower of the Desert: Poetics as Ontology from Leopardi to Negri t i m o t h y s. m u r p h y , u n i v e r s i t y o f o k l a h o m a Antonio Negri has gained a degree of notoriety at two distinct stages of his long career for two very different reasons: first, in the seventies...

... to be “really understood”; the early essay, which I revisit in its published form and through notes and drafts, makes an argument about difficult writing itself: that it can demand not just intellectual but affective response. Ashbery calls attention to a poetics of intimacy in Stanzas and reads its grand...

..." POETICS ROBERTA S. MAGUIRE, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH Albert Murray is an important and controversial figure in jazz studies today Since the 1960s he has been writing about jazz as the quintessential American art form rooted in the African-American "blues idiom" and therefore...

... modernism.” Bowen's spatial aesthetic in turn insists on a related spatial interpretative practice, which is consistent with theoretical developments in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s that consider how space and time cooperate in the configuration of narrative. Her poetics destabilizes time and linear plot...

... not consist of straightforward reference or choice of subject matter” (72). In absorbing “the characteristics of historical dislocation and determination, of mobility, homelessness, and nostalgic homesickness, into the basis of his poetic practices,” Wordsworth makes available for awareness “forces...

...Caitlin E. Newcomer This essay examines Claudia Rankine's long poem Plot (2001) in light of its status as one of a number of postsixties poetic texts authored by women that explore complicated questions surrounding the relationships among maternity, the female body, and innovative poetics. Plot...

...Dan Sinykin This essay develops a poetics of microfinance through an attempt to account for Jhumpa Lahiri's strange mention of the Grameen Bank in the short story “Sexy” from her collection Interpreter of Maladies . It shows how Lahiri's allusion links the intimacy of simulated global space...

... of negativity in poetic traditions. The article examines Emily Dickinson's “Essential Oils—are wrung” as an instance of a poem that may be clarified by an exploration of its negative response to her poetic predecessors, in this case the tradition of Petrarchanism. It explores a similar negativity in Alvin...

... that his theory be fleshed out through poetic art. Agamben reveals messianic temporality and its political effects in Woolf, just as Woolf's poetic prose gives to Agamben's ideas a representational bloom. By offering To the Lighthouse as a paradigm, this essay illustrates how Agamben's work may be used...