The Point Is to Change It

Jerome J. McGann

The University of Alabama Press, 2007

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Argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. This book focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present.

ISBN-13
9780817354084
ISBN-10
0817354085
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Year
2007
Publication date
2007-04-06
Pages
288
Dimensions
158x228x18
Weight
398