The Dog in the Poem
On Williams's Paterson
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6225927 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colin Dayan (0000-0002-6557-3462, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 59-72 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01903659-3898106 |
| OpenAlex | W2731380894 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Through the route of the dog, I examine the limits and reach of what I call Williams's “poetic ethnography.” In disavowing any cherished humanism, William Carlos Williams writes his long poem Paterson. In acknowledging the obscenity of his twentieth-century world and a brutal history that he knew to be particular to America, he sought a practical and embodied method of writing that did not entail dominance and instead skirted intelligibility
Art · Art history · Dominance (genetics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Humanism · Literature · Poetry · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · History · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Highly cited | No |
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