The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics |
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| Author:
| Heuving, Jeanne |
| Series title: | Modern and Contemporary Poetics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8173-5843-3 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2016 |
| Publisher: | University of Alabama Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics is a probing examination of how the writing of sexual love undergoes a radical revision by avant-garde poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Today, the exploration of love by poets?long a fixture of Western poetic tradition?is thought to be in decline, with love itself understood to be a mere ideological overlay for the more ?real? entities of physical sex and desire.
The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics is a probing examination of how the writing of sexual love undergoes a radical revision by avant-garde poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Today, the exploration of love by poets?long a fixture of Western poetic tradition?is thought to be in decline, with love itself understood to be a mere ideological overlay for the more ?real? entities of physical sex and desire.