Robert Duncan and the pragmatist sublime /James Maynard.

Maynard, James, 1974-

Robert Duncan and the pragmatist sublime /James Maynard. - First edition. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource. - Recencies series: research and recovery in twentieth-century American poetics .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Abbreviations -- The pragmatist sublime -- "Seas of desire": Duncan and surrealism 1939-1941 -- Extending the field: Whitehead and the poetics of organism -- The plurality of "what is": the poetics and politics of Duncan's multiphasic sublime -- Architect of excess.

This study examines the theoretical underpinnings of Robert Duncan's poetry and poetics.



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Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 --Criticism and interpretation.


Sublime, The, in literature.


Electronic Books.

PS3507 / .R634 2018