Quotation and Modern American Poetry: "Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads"Texas A&M University Press, 1996 - 256 pages In this volume Elizabeth Gregory addresses a number of key issues surrounding the formation of the American poetic canon. Taking as her primary examples T. S. Eliot's Waste Land, William Carlos Williams' Paterson, and selected poems by Marianne Moore, she examines the ways in which modern American writers struggled with questions of literary authority and cultural identity in relation to pre-existing European models. Gregory focuses on these issues through analysis of the use of quotation in modern and postmodern literature, a practice that was strikingly divergent from the accepted use of literary allusion. Her introduction traces a history of quotation as it has been practiced in literature from classical to modern times. She then focuses on the texts of Eliot, Williams, and Moore--three central figures of American modernism whose work the author believes represents a spectrum of responses to the established European model of poetical discourse. Gregory's selection of Moore also allows her to deal with feminist concerns as they emerge in the more general modernist dialogue. How was a female writer to make use of a literary canon that traditionally excluded female participation? "The implications of Gregory's argument . . . will surely be of especial interest to feminist scholars of American poetry."--Lois Parkinson Zamora, University of Houston. |
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... seems initially to flout the expectation that poetry will make some gesture toward originality . Quota- tion as mode stands in opposition to the mode of allusive transformation that characterizes most poetry . Through reference to ...
... seems initially to flout the expectation that poetry will make some gesture toward originality . Quota- tion as mode stands in opposition to the mode of allusive transformation that characterizes most poetry . Through reference to ...
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... seem un - Christian in ancient texts was read allegorically and revealed to have Chris- tian purpose after all . And along with Christian methods of reading went Christian methods of quotation . The ancient texts ( in their new ...
... seem un - Christian in ancient texts was read allegorically and revealed to have Chris- tian purpose after all . And along with Christian methods of reading went Christian methods of quotation . The ancient texts ( in their new ...
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... seem to have been fairly usual — both secular and sacred ( one work , for instance , organizes phrases from Virgil into a description of events of the Old and New Testaments ) 14 --as were biblical centos . Tertullian , in about 220 CE ...
... seem to have been fairly usual — both secular and sacred ( one work , for instance , organizes phrases from Virgil into a description of events of the Old and New Testaments ) 14 --as were biblical centos . Tertullian , in about 220 CE ...
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... seems to have differed from other moments in which originality had precedence over tradition ( Augustan Rome and fifth - century Athens among them ) in the extent to which it re- pressed awareness of the role of tradition.29 Though the ...
... seems to have differed from other moments in which originality had precedence over tradition ( Augustan Rome and fifth - century Athens among them ) in the extent to which it re- pressed awareness of the role of tradition.29 Though the ...
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Contents
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T S Eliots The Waste Land | 25 |
William Carlos Williamss Paterson | 73 |
Marianne Moores Poetry of Quotation | 129 |
Notes | 187 |
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