| William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture Contributor(s): Bremen a., Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 019507226X ISBN-13: 9780195072266 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $237.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1993 Annotation: Brian Bremen's innovative re-examination of William Carlos Williams's life and work traces the development of Williams's poetics, focusing in particular on his ongoing fascination with the effects of poetry and prose. In an analysis informed by the insight of contemporary cultural critics, Bremen traces Williams's thought from the confused romanticism of Spring and All to the methodological empiricism of Paterson, examining in the process Williams's correspondence with life-long friend Kenneth Burke and their shared theoretical interests. Through this fresh conceptual frame-work, Bremen shows how Williams's role as poet becomes more congruous with his role as doctor. In addition, Bremen looks closely at Williams's economic and social theories in light of those of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, making a case for the consistency of Williams's thought on medicine, gender, economics, poetry and prose, and history. William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture is essential reading for scholars not only of Williams, but also of Modernism, twentieth-century literature, and cultural criticism and history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry | American - General - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.52 |
| LCCN: 92008956 |
| Lexile Measure: 1640 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.38" W x 9.32" (1.25 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bremen's study examines the development of William Carlos Williams's poetics, focusing in particular on Williams's ongoing fascination with the effects of poetry and prose, and his life-long friendship with Kenneth Burke. Using a framework based on Burke's and Williams's theoretical writings and correspondence, as well as on the work of contemporary cultural critics, Bremen looks closely at how Williams's poetic strategies are intimately tied to his medical practice, incorporating a form of methodological empiricism that extends his diagnoses beyond the individual to include both language and community. The book develops a series of rhetorical, cognitive, medical, and political analogues that clarify the poetic and cultural achievements Williams hoped to realize in his writing. |