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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.

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A very fine collection.... McGann's writing will help to re-situate the reading of contemporary experimental writing within a broader context that includes the writing and thinking of poets such as Blake, Byron, and Shelley. - Hank Lazer, author of What Is a Poet? and Days

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      Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: 4/30/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817354084, 978-0817354084
      ISBN10: 0817354085
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      A very fine collection.... McGann's writing will help to re-situate the reading of contemporary experimental writing within a broader context that includes the writing and thinking of poets such as Blake, Byron, and Shelley. - Hank Lazer, author of What Is a Poet? and Days

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