(Un)concealing the Hedgehog. Modernist and Postmodernist American Poetry and Contemporary Critical Theories

Ambroży, Paulina

(Un)concealing the Hedgehog. Modernist and Postmodernist American Poetry and Contemporary Critical Theories

dc.contributor.author	Ambroży, Paulina
dc.date.accessioned	2013-05-24T09:32:27Z
dc.date.available	2013-05-24T09:32:27Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.description.abstract	The book is an attempt to explore the affinities between contemporary critical theories and modernist and postmodernist American poetry. The analysis focuses on poststructuralist theories, notorious for their tendency to destabilize generic boundaries between literary, philosophical and critical discourses. The main argument and the structure of the book derive from Jacques Derrida’s essay “Che cos’è la poesia” [What is poetry?] in which the philosopher postulates the impossibility of defining poetry by comparing a poem to a hedgehog – prickly, solitary, untamed, fragile and protective, rolling itself up into a ball at the first sign of danger or when in the hands of the reader-intruder. The metaphor captures thus the fragility of the relationship between poetry and the world. The book examines this relationship as exemplified by the erinaceous poetics of high modernists (William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein) and their postmodernist followers (Bruce Andrews, Rosmarie Waldrop, Charles Bernstein, A.R. Ammons, Susan Howe, Ellen Hinsey) In the study I employ also other oststructuralist theories, such as the notion of the text and the pleasure of the text formulated by Roland Barthes, the heories of metaphor as seen by Paul Ricoeur or Paul de Man, and gender-sensitive theories of Helene Cixous and Luce Irigaray.	pl_PL
dc.identifier.citation	Ambroży, P. (Un)concealing the Hedgehog. Modernist and Postmodernist American Poetry and Contemporary Critical Theories. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2012
dc.identifier.isbn	978-83-232-2483-9
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10593/6292
dc.language.iso	en	pl_PL
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM	pl_PL
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Anglistyka;
dc.subject	Modernist American poetry	pl_PL
dc.subject	postmodernist American poetry	pl_PL
dc.subject	poetry and metaphor	pl_PL
dc.subject	deconstruction	pl_PL
dc.subject	linguistic experiment	pl_PL
dc.subject	contemporary critical theories	pl_PL
dc.subject	the poem-as-hedgehog	pl_PL
dc.subject	specters of literature	pl_PL
dc.subject	quasi-transcendentalism	pl_PL
dc.subject	metaphysics	pl_PL
dc.subject	language in crisis	pl_PL
dc.title	(Un)concealing the Hedgehog. Modernist and Postmodernist American Poetry and Contemporary Critical Theories	pl_PL
dc.type	Książka	pl_PL