Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism
Autor Dr Rob Wallaceen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 iul 2012
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781441113757
ISBN-10: 1441113754
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1441113754
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
There is hardly any material currently available on improvisation and literature in the years from approx. 1890-1950, the period covered by this book. Wallace traces important historical antecedents of later, more well-known literary movements associated with jazz and improvisation (the Beats, etc.).
Notă biografică
Dr. Rob Wallace is Instructor in the International Studies Program at Bowling Green State University, USA.
Cuprins
Introduction: Writing Improvisation into Modernism
Chapter 1: Ezra Pound: Music, History, Time
Chapter 2: Langston Hughes: "How to Take the Impossible and Make it Dance"
Chapter 3: Listening to Gertrude Stein's Saxophone
Chapter 4: Banjos, Blackbirds, and Blue Guitars: The Soundworld of Wallace Stevens
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Chapter 1: Ezra Pound: Music, History, Time
Chapter 2: Langston Hughes: "How to Take the Impossible and Make it Dance"
Chapter 3: Listening to Gertrude Stein's Saxophone
Chapter 4: Banjos, Blackbirds, and Blue Guitars: The Soundworld of Wallace Stevens
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
"Rob Wallace is a sensitive, astute reader of poetry and of jazz. This book will be essential reading for anyone who appreciates both." -- David Yaffe, Assistant Professor of English, Syracuse University, USA, and author of Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing (Princeton University Press)
"Quiet as it's kept, the Modernists were making it up as they went along. At its root, that's the imperative of 'make it new.' Still, as any good jazz musician can tell you, making it new requires a long period of woodshedding, a mastery of forms and predecessor works. It has taken far too long for improvisation studies to come around to the published word. It may be that publication itself, the appearance in print or pixels of words as words, has caused us to misconstrue the acts of improvisation that are writing and reading. Rob Wallace has returned us to the improvisatory stage of writing and reading, reminding us of the central role improvisation plays in the advent of modernist consciousness, and restored to view the fuller engagement with black culture that was a constant in modernist arts." -- Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Kelly Professor of American Literature, Pennsylvania State University, USA
"Elegantly written and provocatively argued, this book tells a compelling story about American modernist poetry as seen (and heard) through the emerging interdisciplinary field of critical studies in improvisation. Opening up fresh questions around issues of race, sound, the ethics of listening, the use of music in literary history, and improvisation's role in testing the limits of language, cognition, and possibility, Rob Wallace crafts this story with exemplary grace, wisdom, and acuity." -- Ajay Heble, Professor, School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, Canada.
Wallace's Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism provides a stimulating and inviting place from which to explore such questions concerning the ecumenicity and boundless limits of creative improvised practices.
"Quiet as it's kept, the Modernists were making it up as they went along. At its root, that's the imperative of 'make it new.' Still, as any good jazz musician can tell you, making it new requires a long period of woodshedding, a mastery of forms and predecessor works. It has taken far too long for improvisation studies to come around to the published word. It may be that publication itself, the appearance in print or pixels of words as words, has caused us to misconstrue the acts of improvisation that are writing and reading. Rob Wallace has returned us to the improvisatory stage of writing and reading, reminding us of the central role improvisation plays in the advent of modernist consciousness, and restored to view the fuller engagement with black culture that was a constant in modernist arts." -- Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Kelly Professor of American Literature, Pennsylvania State University, USA
"Elegantly written and provocatively argued, this book tells a compelling story about American modernist poetry as seen (and heard) through the emerging interdisciplinary field of critical studies in improvisation. Opening up fresh questions around issues of race, sound, the ethics of listening, the use of music in literary history, and improvisation's role in testing the limits of language, cognition, and possibility, Rob Wallace crafts this story with exemplary grace, wisdom, and acuity." -- Ajay Heble, Professor, School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, Canada.
Wallace's Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism provides a stimulating and inviting place from which to explore such questions concerning the ecumenicity and boundless limits of creative improvised practices.