Marjorie Perloff
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 256398 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marjorie Perloff |
| NOMBRES | Marjorie |
| APELLIDO | Perloff |
| FIRMA | PERLOFF M |
| AFILIACIONES | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4244-8367 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 76 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1964 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
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Falta resumo
Provisional Avant-Gardes
The term avant-garde continues to generate controversy. “Previous avant-garde theorists,” Seita writes—and I am included on her list—“have tended to consider avant-gardes as monolithic, homogeneous, and historical entities outside their material and social contexts. They have either tended to repeat the self-theorizations of avant-garde writers or have based their interpretations on a very selective range of documents and objects.” In response, S…
Poems for the Unborn
The Japanese poet-scholar John Solt is perhaps best known in the United States for his excellent biocritical study (Harvard, 1999) of the avant-garde poet Kitasono Katue, who served, from the mid-1930s on, as Ezra Pound's primary conduit to the stylization of Japanese poetics that he so admired. “Kit Kat,” as Pound fondly called the poet he knew only via their extensive correspondence, was Pound's translator, editor, and sometime collaborator; in…
Modernism and Non-translation
“An arresting, recurrent feature of modernist literature, especially that written in English,” declare the editors in their introduction, is “its incorporation of untranslated words and phrases.” True enough, and it is astonishing that more has not been written on the phenomenon of foreign-language citation in the work of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and many others. The Waste Land, for example, as Harding points out in his own contribut…
Introduction to Charles Bernstein's Distinguished Wenqin Yao Lectures at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Fall 2019
This brief introduction to Charles Bernstein's work, given in Hangzhou, China, in November 2019, on the occasion of Bernstein's Distinguished Lectureship, discusses the basic principles of Language poetics as put forward in the early books Content's Dream and A Poetics. From the first, Bernstein emphasized the idea that poetry is not the expression of feeling but a constructivist art in which language is taken out of its normal context and rechar…
Questioning Minds
Review Article| January 01 2020 Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner ed. by Edward M. Burns Burns, Edward M., ed., Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner, 2 vols. (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2018), 2.016 pp. Marjorie Perloff Marjorie Perloff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 166–167. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7900000 Cite Icon Cite…
Two Lives
Book Review| April 01 2019 Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm Malcolm, Janet, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 229 pp. Marjorie Perloff Marjorie Perloff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 448–449. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7312573 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation M…
A Humument
Book Review| April 01 2018 A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel by Tom Phillips Phillips, Tom, A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel, 6th ed. (London: Thames and Hudson, 2017), 384 pp. Marjorie Perloff Marjorie Perloff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (2): 312–313. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-4362535 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site …
Response to Kindellan and Kotin
In Memoriam
Claude Rawson in conversation with Marjorie Perloff
PREFACEClaude Rawson has been called 'perhaps the best living scholar in eighteenth-century satire, and perhaps of British satire itself', and there is frequent reference in the literature to 'Rawson’s unassailable pre-eminence as Swift’s most challenging, exciting, and erudite modern critic'. In the words of Robert Alter, 'What Rawson bracingly demonstrates is that humanistic inquiry still can be, and deserves to be, an empirically grounded acti…
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
New Rhythms
Book Review| May 01 2016 New Rhythms: Henri Gaudier Brzeska: Art, Dance, and Movement in London, 1911 – 15 Powell, Jennifer, ed., New Rhythms: Henri Gaudier Brzeska: Art, Dance, and Movement in London, 1911 – 15. (Cambridge: Kettle's Yard, 2015), 126 pp. Marjorie Perloff Marjorie Perloff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 313–314. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3487896 Cite Icon Cite Share…
Adventures of the Black Square
Many Subtle Channels
Book Review| April 01 2014 Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature Becker, Daniel Levin, Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012), 338 pp. Marjorie Perloff Marjorie Perloff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (2): 368–369. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2423034 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video…
Avant-Garde in a Different Key
Refiguring the Poundian Ideogram
Difference and Discipline
Indeterminacy, fluidity, anarchy, the non-hierarchical, the multiplex: these have usually been understood as the attributes of John Cage's and Merce Cunningham's musical and dance pieces, so many of which were made in collaboration. But to study the works themselves rather than the artist's statements of intention is to understand that theirs is in fact a simulated or regulated anarchy, a 'natural' form that turns out to be highly controlled and …
The Decay of a Discipline
Research Article| June 01 2011 The Decay of a Discipline: Reflections on the English Department Today Marjorie Perloff Marjorie Perloff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 153–167. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.20.1.0153 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Marjorie Perloff; The Decay of a Discipline: Reflections on the English Department Today. Qui Parle 1 Jun…
Modernism Under Review
This essay offers a critical re-assessment of Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era. It argues that Kenner's magisterial survey remains important to our understanding of Modernism, despite its frankly partisan viewpoint. Kenner's is an insider's account of the Anglo-American Modernist writing that he takes to have been significant because it sought to invent a new language consonant with the ethos of the twentieth century. The essay suggests that Kenner's …
Desert Island Texts
Language in migration
‘Easter, 1916’
This chapter studies ‘Easter, 1916’, W.B. Yeats's First World War poem. It is this poem where Yeats narrates the events of the Easter Rising, and immortalizes the rebels as agents of change, not as abstract heroes. The chapter shows how Yeats presented his characters, discussing the importance of numerology and the poem's formal structure, and takes note of the mythology present in the poem, describing it as a remembrance of a controversial revol…
The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound
one of the central elements of poetry - finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms. essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin break that critical silence to readdress some of the fundamental connections between poetry and sound - connections that go far beyond traditional metrical studies. Ranging from medieval Latin lyrics to a cyborg opera, sixteenth-century France to twentieth-century Brazil, romanti…
The Rattle of Statistical Traffic”
This essay studies the particular conjunction of documentation (“hard facts”) and highly wrought lyric verse and prose in Susan Howe's book The Midnight, a collage text consisting of historical extracts, archival fragments, biographical information, photographs, drawings, cited poems, folk songs, letters, and the original lyrics of the “Bed Hangings” sequence—the whole designed to create an elegiac memoir of the poet's mother, Mary Manning Howe, …
Language Poetry and the Lyric Subject
Columbia Literary History of the United States
Journal Article Columbia Literary History of the United States. Ed. by Emory Elliott, Martha Banta, Terence Martin, David Minter, Marjorie Perloff, and Daniel B. Shea. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. xxviii + 1263 pp. $59.95.) Get access James W. Tuttleton James W. Tuttleton New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages…
Difference and Discipline
Indeterminacy, fluidity, anarchy, the non-hierarchical, the multiplex: these have usually been understood as the attributes of John Cage's and Merce Cunningham's musical and dance pieces, so many of which were made in collaboration. But to study the works themselves rather than the artist's statements of intention is to understand that theirs is in fact a simulated or regulated anarchy, a 'natural' form that turns out to be highly controlled and …
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Pound/Stevens
Time for you and time for me-it seems that neither Pound nor Stevens could allow for it. We, reading these two great Modernists in the late decades of the twentieth century, tend to ignore such mutual distrust, positing that of course Pound and Stevens are among the four or five great American poets of the century. Literary historians and anthologists continue to give them roughly equal time, thus following the practice established by the New Cri…
Desert Island Texts
Constraint, Concrete, Citation
This essay argues that "language poetry," usually taken to be a North American invention, with debts to the objectivists, the Black Mountain school, and New York poetry, also carries on the tradition of two seemingly unrelated non-U.S. movements: concretism and Oulipo. In Charles Bernstein's 2005 libretto for Brian Ferneyhough's opera "about" Walter Benjamin, Shadowtime, visual poetics, Oulipo constraint, and citation from Benjamin's own writings…
Avant-Garde Tradition and Individual Talent
L’avant-garde est un mouvement. La notion de talent personnel ou de génie individuel ne lui est pas contradictoire : la dialectique entre ces deux pôles est ce qui informe l’art du xxe siècle. Essentiellement agonistique, l’avant-garde se construit des adversaires qui lui permettent finalement de se définir, d’acquérir une cohésion, malgré ses divergences internes : les Language Poets en sont un exemple. Toutefois, par-delà les distinctions d’éco…
Multiple Pleats
"Style," Michel Serres tells Bruno Latour in the first of their "Conversations," "is the sign of innovation, of passage into new territory." 1 And yet, when it comes to poetry (or, for that matter, fiction), Serres has expressed little interest in innovative and experimental forms. The declaration, in the same interview, that "I have never ceased to seek beauty" (BL, 26) is made in the context of a discussion about Serres's love of the Greek and …
Response to Jacques Derrida
Irony in Wallace Stevens's The Rock
D ISCUSSION OF Wallace Stevens's final volume of poems, Rock (I954), has been unnecessarily solemn and doctrinaire. On one hand, much has been made of poet's debt to various philosophers. Marius Bewley, for example, writes, Poetry not metaphysics, but there such a thing as a philosophical poet, and Stevens deserves this title.' For Bewley, Stevens essentially an American Transcendentalist whose verse on point of tipping into mysticism.2 Platonic …
Death by Water
Charles Olson and the "Inferior Predecessors"
The Poetic Art of Robert Lowell
Pity the Monsters
Williamson examines Robert Lowell's poetic expression of his discontent with American civilization
"Comment on Elaine Showalter's "Review Essay
Frank O'Hara and the Aesthetics of Attention
year is 1964. As a fitting emblem for the state of poetry in that year, let me cite Anthony Ostroff's Contemporary as Artist and Critic, a collection of symposia in each of which three poets comment on a poem by a fourth poet who then comments on their comments. eight poems discussed are Richard Wilbur's Love Calls Us to the Things of This World, Stanley Kunitz's Father and Son, Robert Lowell's Skunk Hour, John Crowe Ransom's Master's in the Gard…
Four Times Five
yes, as two and two things, four things one and three. (P, 26) The relation between two given numbers is thus, in Altieri's words, a perpetual dialectic by which each creates and defines the other, while both
Wallace Stevens
Frank O'Hara
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 elem…
Pound/Stevens
Time for you and time for me-it seems that neither Pound nor Stevens could allow for it. We, reading these two great Modernists in the late decades of the twentieth century, tend to ignore such mutual distrust, positing that of course Pound and Stevens are among the four or five great American poets of the century. Literary historians and anthologists continue to give them roughly equal time, thus following the practice established by the New Cri…
Between Verse and Prose
"Zukofsky's "A
Agon
The Futurist Moment
The Dance of the Intellect
Ca(n)non to the Right of Us, Ca(n)non to the Left of Us
THE BLACK MOUNTAIN II REVIEW, a student-run journal devoted to the arts, is accepting submissions for its fifth issue of poetry, short fiction, artwork .. . interviews, and film, literary, music and cultural criticism. The theme of this issue-From Word to Sign: A Special Double Issue-will be so-called Language-Oriented Writing, its antecedents and its future. Significant practitioners of this writing include Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Clar…
The Futurist Moment
Columbia Literary History of the United States
Journal Article Columbia Literary History of the United States. Ed. by Emory Elliott, Martha Banta, Terence Martin, David Minter, Marjorie Perloff, and Daniel B. Shea. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. xxviii + 1263 pp. $59.95.) Get access James W. Tuttleton James W. Tuttleton New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages…
Columbia Literary History of the United States
The Futurist Moment
Response to Jacques Derrida
The demise of ‘and’
Between Hatred and Desire
How much of the best I have done and still do is but the attempt to explain myself to her [Maud Gonne]? If she understood, I should lack a reason for writing, and one never can have too many reasons for doing what is so laborious. (“Journal”, 1909, Mem 142)
Great American Novel
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