The Poetics of Vision and the Redemption of the Subject in John Ashbery’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
In the “Final Note” to his 1977 study of Five Temperaments: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merril, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, David Kalstone wrote that on “reading Ashbery’s work, I often have the feeling that he speaks not only to his moment but to the condition of much postmodernist poe...
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E-rea
2011
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | In the “Final Note” to his 1977 study of Five Temperaments: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merril, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, David Kalstone wrote that on “reading Ashbery’s work, I often have the feeling that he speaks not only to his moment but to the condition of much postmodernist poetry.” A condition that is to do, in Kalstone’s terms, with the ways in which postmodernist poetry explores the relation between language — the medium of poetry — and the self: Ashbery, Kalstone goe... |
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