Robert Duncan and the Pragmatist Sublime
Auteur: James Maynard
Nombre de pages: 211 pages
ISBN: 0826358896, 9780826358899
Edition: University of New Mexico Press
Date de publication: University of New Mexico Press
Description: This book examines three historical phases of the poet Robert Duncan's writing within the aesthetic and philosophical context of a pragmatist sublime. The author traces Duncan's poetics of process - which like process philosophy is predicated on conditions of change and plenitude - to the pragmatist tradition of William James, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead. Working from this theoretical framework, and using the archival resources of the Robert Duncan Collection housed in the University of Buffalo's Poetry Collection, James Maynard examines Duncan's understanding of excess in relation to poetry.
