Physical Description
vi, 295 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
The detective and the boundary : some notes on the postmodern literary imagination / William V. Spanos
Modernism and postmodernism : approaching the present in American poetry / David Antin
The new gnosticism : speculations on an aspect of the postmodern mind / Ihab Hassan
From symbolist thought to immanence : the ground of postmodern American poetics / Charles Altieri
Charles Olson : preliminary images / Catharine R. Stimpson
The dialectics of literary tradition / Harold Bloom
At Circe's, or, the self-opener / Hélène Cixous
Postmodern oral poetry : Buckminister Fuller, John Cage, and David Antin / Barry Alpert
From Heidegger to Derrida to chance : doubling and (poetic) language / Jsoeph N. Riddel
Scientific discourse and postmodernity : Francis Bacon and the empirical birth of "revision" / Gerald Gillespie
Nietzsche's prefiguration of postmodern American philosophy / Cornel West.
Other Authors/Editors
Bové, Paul A., 1949-
ISBN
0822316358
9780822316350 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822316498 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822316497 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes
"This is a boundary 2 book, consisting of essays previously published in that journal in the early 70s and 80s."
"A boundary 2 book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The detective and the boundary : some notes on the postmodern literary imagination / William V. Spanos -- Modernism and postmodernism : approaching the present in American poetry / David Antin -- The new gnosticism : speculations on an aspect of the postmodern mind / Ihab Hassan -- From symbolist thought to immanence : the ground of postmodern American poetics / Charles Altieri -- Charles Olson : preliminary images / Catharine R. Stimpson -- The dialectics of literary tradition / Harold Bloom -- At Circe's, or, the self-opener / Hélène Cixous -- Postmodern oral poetry : Buckminister Fuller, John Cage, and David Antin / Barry Alpert -- From Heidegger to Derrida to chance : doubling and (poetic) language / Jsoeph N. Riddel -- Scientific discourse and postmodernity : Francis Bacon and the empirical birth of "revision" / Gerald Gillespie -- Nietzsche's prefiguration of postmodern American philosophy / Cornel West.
