The Point Is to Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present - Modern and Contemporary Poetics - Jerome J. McGann - Books - The University of Alabama Press - 9780817354084 - April 6, 2007
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Jerome J. McGann
The Point Is to Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present - Modern and Contemporary Poetics

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Argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. This book focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present.

288 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 6, 2007
ISBN13 9780817354084
Publishers The University of Alabama Press
Pages 288
Dimensions 228 × 158 × 18 mm   ·   398 g
Series Editor Bernstein, Charles
Series Editor Lazer, Hank

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