Author: Marjorie Perloff
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: painters, among, poet, hara, frank
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1997-12-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0226660591
ISBN-13: 9780226660592

Drawing extensively upon the poet’s unpublished manuscripts--poems, journals, essays, and letters--as well as all his published works, Marjorie Perloff presents Frank O’Hara as one of the central poets of the postwar period and an important critic of the visual arts. Perloff traces the poet’s development through his early years at Harvard and his interest in French Dadaism and Surrealism to his later poems that fuse literary influence with elements from Abstract Expressionist painting, atonal music, and contemporary film. This edition contains a new Introduction addressing O&

Author: Marjorie Perloff
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: memoir, paradox, vienna
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-05
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0811215717
ISBN-13: 9780811215718

A fascinating memoir of refugee flight and survival, intellectual yet highly personal, by one America’s eminent literary critics. The Vienna Paradox is Marjorie Perloff’s memoir of growing up in pre-World War II Vienna, her escape to America in 1938 with her upper-middle-class, highly cultured, and largely assimilated Jewish family, and her self-transformation from the German-speaking Gabriele Mintz to the English-speaking Marjorie—who also happened to be the granddaughter of Richard Schüller, the Austrian foreign minister under Chancellor Dollfuss and a special delegate to t

Author: Marjorie Perloff
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: amp, modernism, studies, garde, avant, indeterminacy, rimbaud, cage, poetics
Number of Pages: 346
Published: 1999-12-25
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0810117649
ISBN-13: 9780810117648

This study, first published in 1981, argues that the map of modernist poetry needs to be redrawn so as to include a central tradition that cannot properly be located within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition that dominated the early-20th century. Marjorie Perloff traces this tradition from its early "French connection" in the poetry of Rimbaud and Apollinaire as well as in Cubist, Dada and early Surrealist painting; through its various manifestations in the work of Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound; to such postmodern "landscapes without depth" as the French/English language

Author: Marjorie Perloff
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: media, poetry, writing, artifice, radical
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1994-06-25
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0226657345
ISBN-13: 9780226657349

How the negotiation between poetic and media discourses takes place is the subject of Marjorie Perloff’s groundbreaking study. Radical Artifice considers what happens when the "natural speech" model inherited from the great Modernist poets comes up against the "natural speech" of the Donahue "talk show," or again, how visual poetics and verse forms are responding to the languages of billboards and sound bytes. Among the many poets whose works are discussed are John Ashbery, George Oppen, Susan Howe, Clark Coolidge, Lyn Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino, Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, and S

Author: Marjorie Perloff
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Keywords: poetics, amp, contemporary, modern, pedagogy, poetry, differentials
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-09-26
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0817351280
ISBN-13: 9780817351281

Marjorie Perloff is one of the foremost critics of contemporary American poetry writing today. Regarded as highly accessible, her works are credited by many with creating and sustaining new critical interest not only in the work of major modernist poets such as Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Williams but also in the postwar tradition of American poetic innovation that ranges from the Black Mountain poets, through the New York School and concrete poetry, to the Language Poets of the 1980s and ’90s. In Differentials, Perloff explores and defends her belief in the power of close reading, a strate

Authors:Marjorie Perloff, Charles Junkerman,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: america, composed, cage, john
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1994-08-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0226660575
ISBN-13: 9780226660578

When the great avant-gardist John Cage died, just short of his eightieth birthday in 1992, he was already the subject of dozens of interviews, memoirs, and discussions of his contribution to music, music theory, and performance practice. But Cage never thought of himself as only (or even primarily) a composer; he was a poet, a visual artist, a philosophical thinker, and an important cultural critic.John Cage: Composed in America is the first book-length work to address the "other" John Cage, a revisionist treatment of the way Cage himself has composed and been "composed" in America. Cage, as t

Author: Marjorie Heinswith a new introduction by Marjorie
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: youth, innocence, censorship, indecency, children
Number of Pages: 442
Published: 2007-09-11
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0813542219
ISBN-13: 9780813542218

From Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter, from Internet filters to the v-chip, censorship exercised on behalf of children and adolescents is often based on the assumption that they must be protected from "indecent" information that might harm their development - whether in art, in literature, or on a Web site. But where does this assumption come from, and is it true?In "Not in Front of the Children", Marjorie Heins explores the fascinating history of "indecency" laws and other restrictions aimed at protecting youth. From Plato’s argument for rigid censorship, through Victorian laws aimed at