TY - BOOK AU - DuPlessis,Rachel Blau AU - Quartermain,Peter TI - The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics SN - 9780817389222 AV - PS310 .O254 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - [Place of publication not identified] PB - University of Alabama Press (Bibliovault) KW - American poetry KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Social problems in literature KW - Literature and society KW - English-speaking countries KW - History KW - English poetry KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Marginality, Social, in literature KW - Objectivism (Philosophy) KW - Poetics KW - Literature KW - Philosophy KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quatermain ; I. ""We Said; Objectivist"": Optics, Objectification, Sincerity, Seriality; 1. The Objectivist Tradition; Charles Altieri ; 2. A Poetics of Marginality and Resistance: The Objectivist Poets in Context; Burton Hatlen ; 3. Be Aware of ""the Medusa's Glance"": The Objectivist Lens and Carl Rakosi's Poetics of Strabismal Seeing; Ming-Qian Ma ; 4. George Oppen's Serial Poems; Alan Golding ; II. Politics, Class, and Ideology; 5. Communists and Objectivists; Eric Homberger; 6. Irrelevant Objects: Basil Bunting's Poetry of the 1930s; John Seed 7. Objectivists in the Thirties: Utopocalyptic Moments; Michael Heller ; 8. Lorine Niedecker's ""Folk Base"" and Her Challenge to the American Avant-Garde; Peter Middleton ; III. Ethics and Religious Culture; 9. Tradition and Modernity, Judaism and Objectivism: The Poetry of Charles Reznikoff; Norman Finkelstein ; 10. Reznikoff's Nearness; Charles Bernstein ; 11. Of Being Ethical: Reflections on George Oppen; Peter Nicholls ; IV. Affiliations; 12. Reading Reznikoff: Zukofsky, Oppen, and Niedecker; Robert Franciosi; 13. Zukofsky's List; Andrew Crozier 14. ""And All Now Is War"": George Oppen, Charles Olson, and the Problem of Literary Generations; Stephen Fredman ; 15. Land's End; Yves di Manno ; 16. The Transformations of Objectivism: An Afterword; Charles Altieri ; Notes; Works Cited; Contributors; Index; 2; b N2 - ""Objectivist"" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological worldview, Objectivists have retained their outsider status. Despite such status, however, the formal, intellectual, ideological, and ethical concerns of the Objectivist nexus have increasingly influenced poetry and poetics in the United States. Thus, argue editors Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Pete UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=920565&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -