Gerald Bruns
Biographic Data
| ID | 2116355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald Bruns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruns |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNS G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Metastatic lyricism: John Wilkinson's poetry and poetics
This essay is an attempt to resolve an apparent contradiction between the poetry and the poetics of the Cambridge Poet John Wilkinson, namely how his apparently paratactic (or ‘schizophrenic’) prosody that treats words as material objects in spatial juxtaposition squares with his effort to conceptualize the lyric as an event – an evanescent series of echoes (‘metastases’) whose task is to ‘eventuate reality time and again’. The essay focuses its …
An Archeology of Fragments
This is a short (fragmentary) history of fragmentary writing from the German Romantics (F. W. Schlegel, Friedrich Hölderlin) to modern and contemporary concrete or visual poetry. Such writing is (often deliberately) a critique of the logic of subsumption that tries to assimilate whatever is singular and irreducible into totalities of various categorical or systematic sorts. Arguably, the fragment (parataxis) is the distinctive feature of literary…
Caroline Bergvall: The Cat & the Ampersand
Research Article| March 01 2012 Caroline Bergvall: The Cat & the Ampersand Gerald Bruns Gerald Bruns University of Notre Dame [email protected] Gerald L. Bruns is the William P. & Hazel B. White Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent book is What Are Poets For? An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (University of Iowa Press, 2012). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English …
Should Poetry Be Ethical or Otherwise
“Should Poetry Be Ethical or Otherwise?” Gerald Bruns (bio) Ein Zeichen Kämmt es zusammen zur Antwort auf eine grübelnde Felskunst. A sign combs it together to answer a brooding rockart —Paul Celan, “Mit mikrolithen gespickte” 1. The Ghost of Aristotle In recent years there has been a good deal of important work on the relation between poetry and ethics.1 Not surprisingly, one conclusion to be drawn from this material is that the relation between…
On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy: A Guide for the Unruly (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
Maurice Blanchot
A theory of turbulence
The Poethical Wager. By Joan Retallack (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), xii + 279 pp. $21.95/£14.95 paper; $55.00/£26.95 cloth. The purpose of Joan Retallack's The Poethical Wager
Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English
Judith H. Anderson. Words that Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xi + 338 pp. $39.50. ISBN: 0-8047-2631-0. - Paula Blank. Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. viii + 211 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 0-415-13779-9. - Volume 51 Issue 4
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Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English
Judith H. Anderson. Words that Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xi + 338 pp. $39.50. ISBN: 0-8047-2631-0. - Paula Blank. Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. viii + 211 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 0-415-13779-9. - Volume 51 Issue 4
Maurice Blanchot
A theory of turbulence
The Poethical Wager. By Joan Retallack (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), xii + 279 pp. $21.95/£14.95 paper; $55.00/£26.95 cloth. The purpose of Joan Retallack's The Poethical Wager
On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy: A Guide for the Unruly (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
Should Poetry Be Ethical or Otherwise
“Should Poetry Be Ethical or Otherwise?” Gerald Bruns (bio) Ein Zeichen Kämmt es zusammen zur Antwort auf eine grübelnde Felskunst. A sign combs it together to answer a brooding rockart —Paul Celan, “Mit mikrolithen gespickte” 1. The Ghost of Aristotle In recent years there has been a good deal of important work on the relation between poetry and ethics.1 Not surprisingly, one conclusion to be drawn from this material is that the relation between…
Caroline Bergvall: The Cat & the Ampersand
Research Article| March 01 2012 Caroline Bergvall: The Cat & the Ampersand Gerald Bruns Gerald Bruns University of Notre Dame [email protected] Gerald L. Bruns is the William P. & Hazel B. White Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent book is What Are Poets For? An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (University of Iowa Press, 2012). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English …
An Archeology of Fragments
This is a short (fragmentary) history of fragmentary writing from the German Romantics (F. W. Schlegel, Friedrich Hölderlin) to modern and contemporary concrete or visual poetry. Such writing is (often deliberately) a critique of the logic of subsumption that tries to assimilate whatever is singular and irreducible into totalities of various categorical or systematic sorts. Arguably, the fragment (parataxis) is the distinctive feature of literary…
Metastatic lyricism: John Wilkinson's poetry and poetics
This essay is an attempt to resolve an apparent contradiction between the poetry and the poetics of the Cambridge Poet John Wilkinson, namely how his apparently paratactic (or ‘schizophrenic’) prosody that treats words as material objects in spatial juxtaposition squares with his effort to conceptualize the lyric as an event – an evanescent series of echoes (‘metastases’) whose task is to ‘eventuate reality time and again’. The essay focuses its …
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