Book Review: Songs of Degrees: Essays on Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 398-399
Author(s):  
Virginia A La Charité
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Poetry And Poetics

Asserting the Ineffable: Rhetorical Appropriation of ‘Poetic’ and the Contemporary Poetry Text

CounterText ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-161
Author(s):  
Ming-Qian Ma
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Constitutive Rhetoric ◽  
Rhetorical Situation ◽  
Poetry And Poetics ◽  
Information Transformation ◽  
And Function ◽  
Identity Formations

An elusive, trace-like entity, ‘poetic’ presents itself in the form of an intangible and yet indispensable relation, or relatedness, in the overall dynamics of information transformation. Paradoxical in nature and function, its ineffability forms the very condition of expressivity in poetry and poetics. ‘Poetic’, as such, also gains popularity and practicality in popular culture at large where and when it becomes articulated, tailored pragmatically to the specificities of any given activity. As an epochal phenomenon, this pragmatic rendition of ‘poetic’ takes the more pronounced form of rhetoric, which appropriates ‘poetic’, and which is resorted to by the contending smaller narratives in the postmodern world as their means for their respective identity formations and legitimations. In the context of the contemporary poetry scene, this rhetorical appropriation of ‘poetic’ manifests itself eloquently in the three areas of rhetorical situation, constitutive rhetoric, and rhetorical styles, which reveal the mechanisms of a soft interpellation that grants the contemporary poets their identity and legitimacy through their own performative confirmation.

scholarly journals Chinese avant-garde poetry in times of mind, mayhem and money through the interpretation of Maghiel van Crevel

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-422
Author(s):  
Ołeksandra Hul
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Western Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ordinary Person ◽  
The Times ◽  
Colloquial Speech ◽  
Controversial Nature

The article is written in the form of a book review. It tells about the Chinese avant-garde poetry as a tendency in the literature of the turn of the 20th and the 21st centuries. We are acquainted with the contemporary poetry through the eyes of Maghiel van Crevel, who, being a famous professor-sinologist, describes the lyrical vanguard with all its peculiarities. In his book he shows the real background of the exile poetry. The reader can not only see the positive sides of the modern poetry, but can also understand the controversial nature of the “Misty poetry” in its entirety. The article gives a brief history of contemporary poetry. It covers the period of forbidden underground poetry during the times of cultural revolution, and shows all the transformation stages of the Chinese avant-garde in literature. In the article we can trace the attitude of Maghiel van Crevel towards the Western art influence on the Chinese culture and poetry. He skillfully expresses his thoughts and feelings by using the words of the others and citing the leading Chinese literary critics. The most interesting thing is that the author of the book focuses his attention on the poets who do not belong to the key representatives of the poetic avant-garde. This helps the reader to understand that a poet is an ordinary person and can write in a simple manner using the colloquial speech just to be closer to other people. The key aim and goals of the Article is to become a vivid literary guide to the avant-garde poetry environment and to give some clues to the reasons of the poetry in exile.

Contemporary Poetry and Capitalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 860-869
Author(s):  
Walt Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Poetry And Poetics ◽  
Historical Capitalism

Abstract The field of poetry and poetics has been revitalized by a decade and a half of close attention to many of its enduring premises and assumptions. Three new books by Jasper Bernes, Margaret Ronda, and Heather Milne show how US poetry from 1945 to the present responds to the changing conditions of historical capitalism. Departing from older periodizing narratives anchored in the shift from modernism to postmodernism, these books uncover the poetic histories that emerge in tandem with changes in economic structures and political regimes.

Songs of Degrees: Essays on Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.

1995 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 618
Author(s):  
David Bergman ◽  
John Taggart
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Poetry And Poetics
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