{"product_id":"rethinking-the-north-american-long-poem-form-matter-experiment-9780826367105","title":"Rethinking the North American Long Poem: Form, Matter, Experiment","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor centuries, critics, poets, poet-scholars, and philosophers have either openly proclaimed or tacitly assumed the long poem as the highest expression of literary ambition and excellence. \u003cem\u003eRethinking the North American Long Poem\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the North American variant of this notorious form--notorious because of its often forbidding and difficult character, particularly with respect to the dialectics of content and form, aesthetics and politics, matter and genre. In nine essays and a contextual introduction, the editors and contributors scrutinize seminal long poems by North American writers, including Walt Whitman's \"Song of Myself,\" Ezra Pound's \u003cem\u003eThe Cantos\u003c\/em\u003e, Muriel Rukeyser's \u003cem\u003eThe Book of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e, and Charles Olson's \u003cem\u003eThe Maximus Poems\u003c\/em\u003e. They also explore recent efforts that have redefined or reopened the case of the long poem, including Rachel Blau DuPlessis's \u003cem\u003eDrafts\u003c\/em\u003e, M. NourbeSe Philip's \u003cem\u003eZong!\u003c\/em\u003e, and Claudia Rankine's \u003cem\u003eCitizen\u003c\/em\u003e. Taking the categories of form, matter, and experiment as frames of conceptual reference, the book examines the ways in which material and immaterial aspects of literary practice and the philosophically and politically inscribed duality of experience and experiment are negotiated in and by North American long poems from the nineteenth century to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAskin, Ridvan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eRidvan Askin\u003c\/b\u003e teaches North American literature at the University of Basel in Switzerland. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eNarrative and Becoming\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of several books, including \u003ci\u003eNew Directions in Philosophy and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreve, Julius:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJulius Greve\u003c\/b\u003e is a research associate at the Institute for English and American Studies at the University of Oldenburg in Germany. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eShreds of Matter: Cormac\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMcCarthy and the Concept of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Unm Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51552722518290,"sku":"9780826367105","price":82.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5679af22-9ede-4af9-8bf4-87084cb44c83.jpg?v=1754900868","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rethinking-the-north-american-long-poem-form-matter-experiment-9780826367105","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}