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Book SynopsisIn the decade that followed 1972, the journal boundary 2 consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an emerging literary postmodernism. This title gathered many of those foundational essays.
Table of ContentsPreface / Paul A. Bove 1
The Detective and the Boundary: Some Notes on the Postmodern Literary Imagination / William V. Spanos 17
Modernism and Postmodernism: Approaching the Present in American Poetry / David Antin 40
The New Gnosticism: Speculation on an Aspect of the Postmodern Novel / Ihab Hassan 77
From Symbolist Thought to Immanence: The Ground of Postmodern American Poetics / Charles Altieri 100
Charles Olson: Preliminary Images / Catharine R. Stimpson 140
The Dialectics of Literary Tradition / Harold Bloom 163
At Circe's, or, The Self-Opener / Helene Cixous 175
Postmodern Oral Poetry: Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, and David Antin / Barry Alpert 188
From Heidegger to Derrida to Chance: Doubling and (Poetic) Language / Joseph N. Riddel 207
Scientific Discourse and Postmodernity: Francis Bacon and the Empirical Birth of "Revision" / Gerald Gillespie 232
Nietzsche's Prefiguration of Postmodern American Philosophy / Cornel West 265
Index 291
