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Author Steen, John (John W.), author.

Title Affect, psychoanalysis, and American poetry : this feeling of exaltation / John Steen
Edition Paperback edition
Published London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 212 pages)
Series Bloomsbury studies in critical poetics
Bloomsbury studies in critical poetics.
Contents Introduction -- Anxiety's holding: Wallace Stevens' poetry of the nerves -- Threshold poetics: Stevens and W. Winnicott's "not-communicating" -- Randall Jarrell's beards -- Mourning the elegy: Robert Creeley's "mother's photograph" -- Ted Berrigan's reparations -- Aaron Kunin's line of shame -- This feeling of time: Claudia Rankine's Citizen
Summary "Poetry has often been defined by its closure, its condensation of meaning and value into discrete, self-referential textual objects. Affect, Psychoanalysis and American Poetry challenges the dominant metaphor of poetic containers by turning to recent poetic texts that represent the contagious and uncontainable feelings of anxiety, grief, shame, and rage. From modernists Wallace Stevens to mid-century poets Randall Jarrell, Robert Creeley and Ted Berrigan, and finally to contemporary practitioners Aaron Kunin and Claudia Rankine, John Steen argues that new poetic techniques arise from the poetic productivity of negative affects, and that a new model of poetic value can be found in poems that are - instead of containers - permeable, social spaces of intimacy, attachment, and withdrawal. Drawing from object relations, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and affect theory, Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry finds poetry's singularity in its unique capacity to represent anew the transmissible, relational, and uncontainable valences of feeling that structure and destabilize social life"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 30, 2020)
Subject Affect (Psychology) in literature.
Emotions in literature.
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Poetry -- Psychological aspects
Literary studies: poetry & poets.
Poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
American poetry.
Emotions in literature.
Poetry -- Psychological aspects.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018022294
ISBN 9781350021556
1350021539
9781350021532
1350021555
9781350021563
1350021563