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- Title
What Theory Can Learn from New Directions in Contemporary American Poetry.
- Authors
Altieri, Charles
- Abstract
An essay is presented that comments on the use of rhetoric in American poetry. The author discusses the early 20th century modernist shift away from rhetorical poetry and towards an experimental aesthetic. He comments on the relationship of linguistic aestheticism and capacious subject matter. Other topics explored include the poetics of Language Writing, the theory of the demonstrative, and eloquence of word choice.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language rhetoric; 20TH century American poetry; AESTHETICISM (Literature); 19TH century literary criticism; RHETORICAL theory; POETICS; DEMONSTRATIVES (Grammar)
- Publication
New Literary History, 2012, Vol 43, Issue 1, p65
- ISSN
0028-6087
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/nlh.2012.0003