Perloff, Marjorie
Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics
- ISBN 13:
- 9780226798509
- author:
- Perloff, Marjorie
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2021
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions:
- 22.6 x 15 x 1.8 centimetres (0.3
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, Poetry,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics by Marjorie Perloff explores the nature of poetry, examining its visual, grammatical, and sound components. This concept, coined by Marcel Duchamp, refers to the smallest difference between two seemingly unrelated things.
Perloff argues that poetry can be understood as a language of infrathin, where words and phrases are realigned through sound, layout, etymology, grammar, and construction to create something new. Drawing on major modernist poets from Stein to Beckett, she challenges traditional approaches to reading poetry and seeks to uncover its underlying possibilities.
Through a close analysis of poems such as Goethe's "Wanderer's Night Song" and Eliot's Four Quartets, Infrathin offers a fresh perspective on the nature of poetry and invites readers to reconsider their relationship with this art form.
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