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Postmodern American Fiction : a Norton Anthology Pdf, Epub, Ebook POSTMODERN AMERICAN FICTION : A NORTON ANTHOLOGY PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Paula Geyh | 704 pages | 24 Sep 1997 | WW Norton & Co | 9780393316988 | English | New York, United States Postmodern American Fiction : A Norton Anthology PDF Book Thanks for telling us about the problem. Feb 23, Rodney rated it it was amazing Shelves: poetry. Quick Tags. Hoover is the editor of New American Writing. Newsletter Subscribe Give. Miller and Jason Tougaw. James Schuyler Contributor ,. It's a volume I find myself returning to, as though to revisit the place where something irretrievably lost was last seen. I have no idea where it is. Anselm Hollo Contributor ,. Excerpts from novels by writers, giving their comments on what they wanted to achieve. The anthology--because of course it must end somewhere--shortchanges some younger poets, especially females, those born in the late seventies and early eighties and now beginning to do really interesting work. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. It seems everyday conversation revolves precisely around ephemeral things like that. This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. The most important collection of poems I own. Joyce has perhaps done a more elegant and satisfying job of translating afternoon onto the Web with some help from the programmer Justin Edelson , but the effect is ultimately the same. While the Dove anthology looked to the past, Hoover's anthology looks to the future. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Kalin rated it liked it Mar 25, Yellowlees Douglas , and afternoon, a story , by Michael Joyce , which is probably the most celebrated work of hypertext fiction yet produced. Here is the vitality, the sense of risk and indeterminacy, so vacant from Dove's staid reckoning. David Antin Contributor ,. I'd like to read more of his work. Original publication date. Hilda Morley Contributor ,. That classical ideal is an illusion. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. It does not have to do with personality or intimacy, far from it! Seller Inventory But to give you a vague idea, one of its minimal aspects is to address itself to one person other than the poet himself , thus evoking overtones of love without destroying love's life-giving vulgarity, and sustaining the poet's feelings towards the poem while preventing love from distracting him into feeling about the person. Hannah Weiner Contributor ,. Postmodern American Fiction : A Norton Anthology Writer I've had this book since my senior year of college. But this volume calls attention to itself in another way: it takes a flying leap into cyberspace. How long did it take me to read this?! Schools of poetry. Good anthology but it didn't have a lot of what I would call the best poems by included authors. Norton, W. Brett rated it really liked it Feb 13, No trivia or quizzes yet. What struck me -- apart from the strangeness of seeing hypertext fiction in a bound book -- was how comfortably, almost effortlessly, these selections by Douglas and Joyce fit into the setting of this anthology. Friend Reviews. Download as PDF Printable version. Add to Basket. I recommended at least checking out the selection list. Beverly Bentley rated it really liked it Nov 02, So went with the 3 stars. Hoover admires this approach, but he doesn't accept it. Whether they are the New York School or the Flarf group, a ridiculous joie de vivre survives in their verse. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. Used this great anthology in my Naropa years. This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. Postmodern American Fiction : A Norton Anthology Reviews Satisfaction Guaranteed! Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. I learned much about writing from examining the techniques used within these examples of short stories. I've never read an entire Norton Anthology before that I recall. Because of this, a reader who isn't an insider must necessarily spend a lot of time in bafflement at exactly what is going on within a poem, sometimes a confusion which is encouraged by the poet. Bringing together foundational postmodern poets like Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, and Allen Ginsberg with new voices like Christian Bok, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Katie Degentesh, this edition of Postmodern American Poetry is the essential collection for a new generation of readers. John Cage I read with anthropological interest rather than aesthetic delight. Today is National Voter Registration Day! Not only is this the first Norton anthology perhaps the first print anthology ever to include examples of hypertext fiction, it is also the first time a Norton anthology has pointed to a companion Web site where expanded excerpts of literary works created for a digital medium can be explored. Isn't it possible to tell stories, in any medium -- whether via film, the stage, the computer, or the printed page -- that grapple with postmodernity without actually having to embody the idea of postmodernity in their form? A Bernadette Mayer poem gave me a hard-on always wanted to meet her - I liked her bk about fasting. But this volume calls attention to itself in another way: it takes a flying leap into cyberspace. Poetry is too out of it to notice. Joseph Ceravolo Contributor ,. In fact, the editors of the PMAF anthology have gone to a great deal of trouble to collect dozens of works that they apparently agree succeed in doing just that. Amazon Kindle 0 editions. Welcome back. This is the first anthology to do full justice to the vast range of American innovation in fiction writing since Frank O'Hara is a joy. Powhatan's Daughter VII. Postmodern American Fiction : A Norton Anthology Read Online Flarf enjoys the controversial but strategically advantageous position of presenting what seems to be a new low in poetry. Perelman calls instead for a "defamiliarization of poetry by removing it from the comforting aegis of the oral": "Unlike the oral poet, who is reinforcing what the community already knows, the didactic writer will always have something new, and, possibly, unacceptable to get across. Personism has nothing to do with philosophy, it's all art. Harriet Blog. How long did it take me to read this?! Some really good stuff in here, some duds. As Olson puts it:. Used this great anthology in my Naropa years. A very cool collection of excerpts from well known and lesser known American authors of postmodern fiction. It was an attempted canonization of late offshoots of the lyric tradition, a tradition many would say suffers from rigor mortis, hence the very effort to bring vitality to it is marked by incoherence. Apr 15, Jennifer rated it liked it Shelves: poetry. Robert Duncan's mysticism is too hand-wavy for me; I am more for Denise Levertov's "ecstatic Protestantism," as editor Paul Hoover puts it. Lawrence Hogue opens up the postmodern canon--he makes the authors he criticizes more intriguing to read and study, and he gives multicultural and women authors their rightful place in postmodern American literature. Here, it's an umbrella term. Indeed, a couple of decades ago, the transmutations of language poetry could not have been foreseen in the way they have occurred, and as this anthology makes amply clear. Convert currency. They also replicate a Romantic idea of poetry as a procession of separate gifted individuals, each with his or her own unique voice, which much of the history of experimental poetry and the scenes it comes out of undercuts both in theory and praxis. Want to Read saving…. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Original publication date. But then I got to the "Poetics" section. Other Editions 1. Norton's PMAF Web site, in fact, should not be seen so much as a companion or supplement to the book as an essential, integral part of it. Paperback , pages. John Cage I read with anthropological interest rather than aesthetic delight. A new edition of this groundbreaking anthology revisits postmodernism as a twenty-first- century movement. Book description. Perelman holds that, just as Virgil's The Aeneid justifies empire, much contemporary poetry exists for "a sort of Monday-morning Emperor," the bourgeois reader, who can feel "in the exquisitely disposed syllables, the pain of repression that comes with the territory of world domination. To cover the Beats, the New York School in all its reincarnations, Projectivist verse, procedural poetry, language poetry, and postlanguage poetry Newlipo, conceptual poetry, and cyberpoetry, which includes the popular practice of Flarf is to chart a progression that has sometimes reached a dead-end, sometimes retains marginal possibilities for advancement, and sometimes beckons to an open road. Not everyone will appreciate all the poets in the book, but that is the mark of a good editor, to be able to acknowledge important writing across a broad spectrum, not just the comfortable and familiar. Jerome Rothenberg Contributor ,. Richard King. Namespaces Article Talk. 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