{"product_id":"george-oppen-and-the-fate-of-modernism-9780199678464","title":"George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism","description":"Regard for George Oppen's poetry has been growing steadily over the last decade. Peter Nicholls's study offers a timely opportunity to engage with a body of work which can be both luminously simple and intriguingly opaque. Nicholls charts Oppen's commitment to Marxism and his later explorations of a 'poetics of being' inspired by Heidegger and Existentialism, providing detailed accounts of each of the poet's books. He is the first critic to draw extensively on the Oppen archive, with its thousands of pages of largely unpublished notes and drafts for poems; in doing so, he is able to map the distinctive contours of Oppen's poetic thinking and to investigate the complex origins of many of his poems. Oppen emerges from this study as a writer of mercurial intensities for whom every poem constitutes a 'beginning again', a freeing of the mind from thoughts known in advance. A strikingly innovative and challenging poetics results from Oppen's attempt to avoid what he regards as the errors of the modernist avant-garde and to create instead a designedly 'impoverished' aesthetic which keeps poetry close to the grain of experience and to the political and ethical dilemmas it constantly poses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Nicholls\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199678464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Nicholls\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at New York University. His publications include \u003cem\u003eEzra Pound: Politics, Economics and Writing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eModernisms: A Literary Guide\u003c\/em\u003e, and many articles and essays on literature and theory. He recently co-edited with Laura Marcus \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature\u003c\/em\u003e and is currently editor of the journal \u003cem\u003eTextual Practice\u003c\/em\u003e and co-director of The Centre for Modernist Studies at Sussex.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43144535113843,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":87.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_eb1d0aa7-3359-42f0-a336-236e692e5425.jpg?v=1750504238","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/george-oppen-and-the-fate-of-modernism-9780199678464","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}