I am Otherwise: The Romance between Poetry and Theory after the Death of the Subject examines the contemporary poet's relationship with language in the age of theory. As the book works through close readings and interpretations of Adrienne Rich and Harold Bloom, John Ashbery and Paul de Man, Jorie Graham and Maurice Blanchot, and Barrett Watten and Jacques Lacan, it shows how the main psychological modes of contemporary poetry and the postmodern poet are anxiety, irony, abjection, and destitution. The book ultimately concludes that the new theoretical poetry self-consciously renders the effect of critical theory in its own construction. Whereas poets of the past tarried with nature, self, or philosophy, poets of our time unite lyric feeling with literary theory itself.
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Alex E. Blazer earned his doctorate in twentieth-century literature and critical theory from Ohio State University. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisville, where he teaches American literature and critical theory. He has published numerous articles and is currently working on a book-length, psychoanalytical study of contemporary American novels by Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, William H. Gass, Bret Easton Ellis, and Mark Z. Danielewski.
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I Don't Remember This... At All,
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This book is very well written. However, I do not remember writing it. Apparently, I am also a Dr. of the English language... I was unaware of this as well. If any knows me, or could help me with this predicament I would appreciate your help very much. I am currently in Kansas but I think I'm supposed to be teaching in Louisville... weird.
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Alex Blazer was my professor at U of L, and when I bought this book I knew it would be amazing before I read a single word. This guy is a genius, and helps his students learn in the most creative ways...my final paper was the hardest thing I've ever written, but he made it worth while. Buy the book. We are lucky to have an author of this calibur in our generation.
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This book blew my mind. I personally know the author: he is my professor and friend (we saw a movie and went to dinner together, twice), and is a complete genius. Buy this book if you love anything!
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untitled thing, subjective destitution, destitute subject, relationship with language, infinite conversation, liminal point, self difference, inner death, opening epigraph Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, Barrett Watten, Convex Mirror, Harold Bloom, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man, The Phenomenology of Anger, Self Portrait, Storm Warnings, Change of World, Midnight Salvage, Roland Barthes, The Station Hill Blanchot Reader, The Waste Land, Complete Thought, Long Conversation, The Double Dream of Spring, Forties Flick, The Blanchot Reader, The Diamond Cutters, Three Poems, Untitled One New!
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untitled thing, subjective destitution, destitute subject, relationship with language, infinite conversation, liminal point, self difference, inner death, opening epigraph Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, Barrett Watten, Convex Mirror, Harold Bloom, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man, The Phenomenology of Anger, Self Portrait, Storm Warnings, Change of World, Midnight Salvage, Roland Barthes, The Station Hill Blanchot Reader, The Waste Land, Complete Thought, Long Conversation, The Double Dream of Spring, Forties Flick, The Blanchot Reader, The Diamond Cutters, Three Poems, Untitled One New!
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