Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry: This Feeling of Exaltation
John Steen, Daniel Katz
Poetry has often been defined by its closure, its condensation of meaning and value into discrete, self-referential textual objects.Affect, Psychoanalysis and American Poetrychallenges the dominant metaphor of poetic containers by turning to recent poetic texts that represent the contagious and uncontainable feelings of anxiety, grief, shame, and rage. From modernists Wallace Stevens to mid-century poets Randall Jarrell, Robert Creeley and Ted Berrigan, and finally to contemporary practitioners Aaron Kunin and Claudia Rankine, John Steen argues that new poetic techniques arise from the poetic productivity of negative affects, and that a new model of poetic value can be found in poems that are-instead of containers-permeable, social spaces of intimacy, attachment, and withdrawal. Drawing from object relations, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and affect theory,Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetryfinds poetry's singularity in its unique capacity to represent anew the transmissible, relational, and uncontainable valences of feeling that structure and destabilize social life.
Κατηγορίες:
Έτος:
2018
Έκδοση:
Hardcover
Εκδότης:
Continnuum-3pl
Γλώσσα:
english
Σελίδες:
224
ISBN 10:
1350021547
ISBN 13:
9781350021549
Αρχείο:
EPUB, 407 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2018