| Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol Contributor(s): Frank, Adam (Author) |
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ISBN: 0823262472 ISBN-13: 9780823262472 Publisher: American Literatures Initiative OUR PRICE: $25.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 808.1 |
| LCCN: 2014038653 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Transferential Poetics presents a method for bringing theories of affect to the study of poetics. Informed by the thinking of Silvan Tomkins, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion, it offers new interpretations of the poetics of four major American artists: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Andy Warhol. The author emphasizes the close, reflexive attention each of these artists pays to the transfer of feeling between text and reader, or composition and audience their transferential poetics. The book's historical route from Poe to Warhol culminates in television, a technology and cultural form that makes affect distinctly available to perception. The peculiar theatricality of these four artists, Frank argues, can best be understood as a reciprocal framing relation between the bodily means of communicating affect (by face and voice) and technologies of graphic reproduction. |
Contributor Bio(s): Frank, Adam: - Adam Frank is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He co-edited, with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader, and he has written and produced two full-length recorded audiodramas. |