| In Search of Communication and Community: The Poetry of John Ashbery Contributor(s): Fisiak, Jacek (Editor), Bartczak, Kacper (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631551223 ISBN-13: 9783631551226 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $100.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| LCCN: 2007427909 |
| Series: Polish Studies in English Language and Literature |
| Physical Information: 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is an attempt to offer a reading of the poet's oeuvre that will venture beyond indeterminacy and retrieve a human struggle inscribed in the poetry. The author proposes an eclectic approach that allows the reader to see Ashbery's poetry as part of a fascinating intellectual landscape. Departing from the work of such critics as Perloff, Bloom, and Altieri, the study structures lively transactions between poetry, literary criticism, art, and the work of philosophers: Stanley Cavell, Richard Rorty, Donald Davidson, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Such background provides a theoretical platform for the new reading of many of Ashbery's most important poems. The resulting interpretations give us a poet who, desiring to obtain communicative passages toward the other, must overcome varieties of skepticism and solipsism. Parallel to these developments is the emergent perspective of a larger community of language users who share a strange, menacing, but beautiful world - our world. |
