Infidel Poetics : Riddles, Nightlife, Substance
Daniel. Tiffany
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Chicago, Ill. ; London : : University of Chicago Press, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (266 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Introduction: Lyric Substance and Social Being; 1. The Spectacle of Obscurity; 2. Riddlecraft; 3. Lost Laboratories of the Sphinx; 4. Lyric Monadologies; 5. Infidel Lyric: The Rhymes of the Canting Crew; 6. Flash Crib: A Genealogy of Modern Nightlife; 7. Mother Goose and Mallarmé; Afterword: Social Inversion, Kitsch, and the Art of Disappearing; Index. - Poetry has long been regarded as the least accessible of literary genres. But how much does the obscurity that confounds readers of a poem differ from, say, the slang that seduces listeners of hip-hop? Infidel Poetics examines not only the shared incomprensibilities of poetry and slang, but poetry's genetic relation to the spectacle of underground culture.Charting connections between vernacular poetry, lyric obscurity, and types of social relations-networks of darkened streets in preindustrial cities, the historical underworld of taverns and clubs, the subcult
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| ISBN | 0226803090. - 0226803104. - 9780226803098. - 9780226803104
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