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Modernism and Poetic Inspiration

Part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230622197

ISBN: 978-1-349-37658-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 6, 2015

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Introduction Shadow Mouth

Rasula, Jed

Pages: 1 –12

[To speak in earnest about the Muse in the twenty-first century is tantamount to admitting a paradox, which is that poetry persists despite its attachment to what might seem a disabling anachronism. This is hardly an original consideration; Robert Graves made the same point fifty years ago in The...
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The Murmur: Modernist Alchemies of the Word

Rasula, Jed

Pages: 13 –42

[Murmur: a word rustling in the thickets of certain propositions about literature, emitting a solemn iridescence. Give it a slight tug, and much of Maurice Blanchot’s theoretical work bunches up around it. It goes back to an exhortation by André Breton, Blanchot’s touchstone in The Infinite...
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Drawing a Blank: Episodes in the Poetics of Unworking

Rasula, Jed

Pages: 43 –96

[“Crumbling is not an instant’s Act,” wrote Emily Dickinson. “Dilapidation’s processes / Are organized Decays” (Poems 463). Picasso called his art a “sum of destructions” (Evans 81). Despite the apparent stability of his rectilinear compositional grids, Piet Mondrian was of like mind: “I think...
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Poetry’s Voice-Over: Techniques of Inspiration

Rasula, Jed

Pages: 97 –138

[If, as Wittgenstein remarked, philosophy is a struggle against the fascination of words, poetry may be a struggle in words against the prepossessing clamor of identity. In The Birth of the Modern Mind, Paul Oppenheimer identifies the origin of modern inwardness with the Renaissance development...
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Gendering the Muse

Rasula, Jed

Pages: 139 –157

[In a bracing rendition of a primal scene in “Route,” George Oppen writes: Imagine a man in the ditch, The wheels of the overturned wreck Still spinning—I don’t mean he despairs, I mean if he does not He sees in the manner of poetry.(Poems 198)]
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Medusa’s Gaze: Deep Image, or Traveling in the Dark

Rasula, Jed

Pages: 159 –185

[Postmodernism has become a paradoxically dated term. Because it had its greatest currency during an interlude when modernism was presumed defunct, the “postmodern” was a concept invested in getting over, going beyond, superseding a “modernism” unfit for further scrutiny. In the past decade, a...
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“When the Mind Is Like a Hall”: Places of a Possible Poetics

Rasula, Jed

Pages: 187 –204

[Poetic inspiration was stapled to locality with Hesiod’s memo from the Muses. Place is important: the site of that inaugural visitation is precipitous, not flat. With Hesiod’s fable, poetry is convened as a site-specific art. Consider the specificity of site in the case of the twentieth...

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