James Mccorkle
Biographic Data
| ID | 1107792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Mccorkle |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccorkle |
| SIGNATURE | MCCORKLE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hobart and William Smith Colleges |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Narrating Memory
The reiterations of narratives of enslavement may be, to invoke Jacque Derrida's term, the hauntological, in which “the thing that represents the demise of something also signals its continuation in a different form.” Ian Baucom argues that repetition and accumulation, not progress, defines a modern philosophy of history. Similarly, Arlene Keizer sees contemporary black subjectivity formed through the post-memonics of slavery. Toni Morrison's con…
The Story that Cannot Be Told Must Not-Tell Itself”
Prophecy and the Figure of the Reader in Susan Howe's Articulation of Sound Forms in Time
Prophecy and the Figure of the Reader in Susan Howe’s Articulation of Sound Forms in Time James McCorkle The work of the contemporary experimental poet Susan Howe undertakes the formation as well as retrieval of a prophetic poetics. By shifting the attention from writer to reader there is a similar shift from prophet to prophesy, from the one who prophesies to the oracle’s graphesis—its condition for reading. Howe’s poetics underscores not only t…
Two Poems
Combustion of Early Summer; and The Love of My Life James Mccorkle Combustion of Early Summer The elation of the past is over, the news tells us, Suggesting it was there to begin with Or recoverable, like a heavy ore or a shipwreck. But on closer inspection, the past buzzes around us, A conversation in another room we thought dormant, Soon its occupants will crash through the door Wearing green sequin blouses that remind us of mermaids, The ones …
The Still Performance
Still Performance examines the poetry of five postmodern American poets: Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, W.S.Merwin and Charles Wright. McCorkle devotes a chapter to each one of these five poets and provides an overview of their poetics. He discusses how the tenuous condition of transcendence now negotiated in the realm of the ordinary is central to Bishop's work; how the self and the text, always intertwined, mirror each other's f…
The Lyric and Modern Poetry
The Morrison Era
Narrating Memory
The reiterations of narratives of enslavement may be, to invoke Jacque Derrida's term, the hauntological, in which “the thing that represents the demise of something also signals its continuation in a different form.” Ian Baucom argues that repetition and accumulation, not progress, defines a modern philosophy of history. Similarly, Arlene Keizer sees contemporary black subjectivity formed through the post-memonics of slavery. Toni Morrison's con…
The Morrison Era
The Still Performance
Still Performance examines the poetry of five postmodern American poets: Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, W.S.Merwin and Charles Wright. McCorkle devotes a chapter to each one of these five poets and provides an overview of their poetics. He discusses how the tenuous condition of transcendence now negotiated in the realm of the ordinary is central to Bishop's work; how the self and the text, always intertwined, mirror each other's f…
The Lyric and Modern Poetry
Two Poems
Combustion of Early Summer; and The Love of My Life James Mccorkle Combustion of Early Summer The elation of the past is over, the news tells us, Suggesting it was there to begin with Or recoverable, like a heavy ore or a shipwreck. But on closer inspection, the past buzzes around us, A conversation in another room we thought dormant, Soon its occupants will crash through the door Wearing green sequin blouses that remind us of mermaids, The ones …
Prophecy and the Figure of the Reader in Susan Howe's Articulation of Sound Forms in Time
Prophecy and the Figure of the Reader in Susan Howe’s Articulation of Sound Forms in Time James McCorkle The work of the contemporary experimental poet Susan Howe undertakes the formation as well as retrieval of a prophetic poetics. By shifting the attention from writer to reader there is a similar shift from prophet to prophesy, from the one who prophesies to the oracle’s graphesis—its condition for reading. Howe’s poetics underscores not only t…
The Story that Cannot Be Told Must Not-Tell Itself”
Narrating Memory
The reiterations of narratives of enslavement may be, to invoke Jacque Derrida's term, the hauntological, in which “the thing that represents the demise of something also signals its continuation in a different form.” Ian Baucom argues that repetition and accumulation, not progress, defines a modern philosophy of history. Similarly, Arlene Keizer sees contemporary black subjectivity formed through the post-memonics of slavery. Toni Morrison's con…
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