Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage

by Marjorie Perloff

Book Overview

In her seminal study, first published in 1981, Marjorie Perloff argues that the map of Modernist poetry needs to be redrawn to include a central tradition that cannot properly be located within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition that dominated the early twentieth century. She traces this tradition from its early "French connection" in the poetry of Rimbaud and Apollinaire as well as in Cubist, Dada, and early Surrealist painting; through its various...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691064628
• ISBN13: 9780691064628
• Release Date: July 1981
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.