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disjunctive poetics
disjunctive poetics examines some of the most interesting and experimental contemporary writers whose work forms a counterpoint to the mainstream writing of our time . peter quartermain suggests that the explosion of noncanonical modern writing is linked to the severe political social and economic dislocation of non english speaking immigrants who bringing alternative culture with them as they passed through ellis island in their hundreds of thousands at the turn of the century found themselves uprooted from their tradition and disassociated from their culture . the line of american poetry that runs from gertrude stein through louis zukofsky and the objectivists to the language writers quartermain contends is not the constructive but deconstructive aspect that emphasized the materiality and ambiguity of the linguistic medium and the arbitrariness and openess of the creative process .
paperback cambridge university press 2009 isbn13 9780521101301 isbn10 0521101301
abridged n isbn 13 9780521101301 number in series 1 number of pages 254 publisher cambridge univ pr release date 62135769600000 series title cambridge studies in american literature and culture