TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nerys Williams
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1661-2744
TI  - Reading Error
T2  - The Lyric and Contemporary Poetry
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102424
N2  - This book considers the development of the lyric form in recent American poetry of the past three decades. By concentrating on the writing of three poets associated with language writing, Charles Bernstein, Michael Palmer and Lyn Hejinian, the discussion considers the attempts of contemporary poetry to problematise the identification of the lyric as a static model of subjectivity. Central considerations motivating the discussion are: How do contemporary lyric poets negotiate the propositions posed by postmodern thought? What reading of lyricism can one formulate once the self is displaced from centre stage and an ‘experience’ of language takes its place? The book proposes that an aesthetic of error enables us to approach the reconfiguration of the lyric in recent innovative poetry. Drawing from elements of modernist poetic practice, psychoanalytic theory, language philosophy and critical theory this book pursues methods for understanding the demands placed upon the reader of contemporary poetry.
KW  - Lyrik, Postmoderne, Poetry, American, Malaprop, Ungrammaticality, Aesthetic error, Ideolect, Bernstein, Charles
LA  - English
ER  -