TY - BOOK AU - Golston,Michael TI - Poetic machinations: allegory, surrealism, and postmodern poetic form SN - 9780231538633 AV - PS323.5 .G65 2015 U1 - 811.5 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - American poetry KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Allegory KW - Surrealism (Literature) KW - Poetics KW - Poésie américaine KW - 20e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Allégorie KW - Surréalisme (Littérature) KW - Poétique KW - Surrealist KW - aat KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Poetry KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - English KW - hilcc KW - Languages & Literatures KW - American Literature KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Polemical Preface ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Etymologies, 1980â€?the Allegorical Moment""; ""1. Entomologies: Louis Zukofsky and Lorine Niedecker""; ""2. Epistemologies: Clark Coolidge""; ""3. A=L=L=E=G=O=R=I=E=S: Peter Inman, Myung Mi Kim, Lyn Hejinian""; ""4. Semiologies: Susan Howe ""; ""5. Fictocritical Postlude: The Melancholy of Conceptualism""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index"" N2 - The shape, lineation, and prosody of postmodern poems are extravagantly inventive, imbuing their form with as much meaning as their content. Through a survey of American poetry and poetics from the end of World War II to the present, Michael Golston traces the proliferation of these experiments to a growing fascination with allegory in philosophy, linguistics, critical theory, and aesthetics, introducing new strategies for reading American poetry while embedding its formal innovations within the history of intellectual thought. Beginning with Walter Benjamin's explicit understanding of Surrea UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1064693 ER -