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.