Circling the Canon, Volume I: The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1969–1994 by Marjorie Perloff (.ePUB)Requirements: .ePUB reader, 2.5mbOverview: One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years. Circling the Canon, Volume I covers roughly the first […]
Circling the Canon, Volume II: The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1995-2017 (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics) by Marjorie Perloff, edited by David Jonathan BayotRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3.5 MBOverview: One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and […]
Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics by Marjorie PerloffRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.5 MBOverview: Esteemed literary critic Marjorie Perloff reconsiders the nature of the poetic, examining its visual, grammatical, and sound components. The “infrathin” was Marcel Duchamp’s playful name for the most minute shade of difference: that between the report of a gunshot and the appearance of […]
Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire by Marjorie PerloffRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 7.21 MBOverview: Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the […]
Wittgenstein’s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary by Marjorie PerloffRequirements: epub reader, 6mbOverview: Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenstein’s remark that "philosophy ought really to […]