Poetry at Stake

by Noland, Carrie

• ISBN13: 9780691004167
• ISBN10: 0691004161
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

Taking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day "mechanize" poetry as modern industry has mechanized the world, Carrie Noland explores poetic attempts to redefine the relationship between subjective expression and mechanical reproduction, high art and the world of things. Noland builds upon close readings to construct a tradition of diverse lyricists--from Arthur Rimbaud, Blaise Cendrars, and René Char to contemporary performance artists Laurie Anderson and Patti Smith--allied in their concern with the nature of subjectivity in an age of mechanical reproduction.

Author Biography

Carrie Noland is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Irvine.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	3	(13)
Traffic in the Unknown: Rimbaud's Interpretive Communities, Market Competition, and the Poetics of Voyance	16	(21)
A Poetry of Attractions: Rimbaud's Machine and the Theatrical Feerie	37	(23)
Confessing Philosophy: Negative Dialectics and/as Lyric Poetry	60	(29)
Blaise Cendrars and the Heterogeneous Discourses of the Lyric Subject	89	(25)
High Decoration: Sonia Delaunay, Blaise Cendrars, and the Poem as Fashion Design	114	(27)
Messages personnels: Radio, Cryptography, and the Resistance Poetry of Rene Char	141	(22)
Rimbaud and Patti Smith: The Discoveries of Modern Poetry and the Popular Music Industry	163	(22)
Confessions of a Cyborg	185	(34)
Laurie Anderson
Coda	213	(6)
Notes	219	(36)
General Index	255	(8)
Index of Principal Primary Sources Cited	263