Regard for George Oppen's poetry has been growing steadily over the last decade. Peter Nicholls's study offers a timely opportunity to engage with a body of work which can be both luminously simple and intriguingly opaque. Nicholls charts Oppen's commitment to Marxism and his later explorations of a 'poetics of being' inspired by Heidegger and Existentialism, providing detailed accounts of each of the poet's books. He is the first critic to draw extensively on the Oppen archive, with its thousands of pages of largely unpublished notes and drafts for poems; in doing so, he is able to map the distinctive contours of Oppen's poetic thinking and to investigate the complex origins of many of his poems. Oppen emerges from this study as a writer of mercurial intensities for whom every poem constitutes a 'beginning again', a freeing of the mind from thoughts known in advance. A strikingly innovative and challenging poetics results from Oppen's attempt to avoid what he regards as the errors of the modernist avant-garde and to create instead a designedly 'impoverished' aesthetic which keeps poetry close to the grain of experience and to the political and ethical dilemmas it constantly poses.

George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism

Literature & Fiction

Nicholls, Peter

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Regard for George Oppen's poetry has been growing steadily over the last decade. Peter Nicholls's study offers a timely opportunity to engage with a body of work which can be both luminously simple and intriguingly opaque. Nicholls charts Oppen's commitment to Marxism and his later explorations of a 'poetics of being' inspired by Heidegger and Existentialism, providing detailed accounts of each of the poet's books. He is the first critic to draw extensively on the Oppen archive, with its thousands of pages of largely unpublished notes and drafts for poems; in doing so, he is able to map the distinctive contours of Oppen's poetic thinking and to investigate the complex origins of many of his poems. Oppen emerges from this study as a writer of mercurial intensities for whom every poem constitutes a 'beginning again', a freeing of the mind from thoughts known in advance. A strikingly innovative and challenging poetics results from Oppen's attempt to avoid what he regards as the errors of the modernist avant-garde and to create instead a designedly 'impoverished' aesthetic which keeps poetry close to the grain of experience and to the political and ethical dilemmas it constantly poses.

Modernisms: A Literary Guide, Second Edition

Peter Nicholls provides original analytic accounts of the main Modernist movements. Close readings of key texts monitor the histories of Futurism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism. This new edition includes discussion of the recent research trends, examination of developments in the US, and a new chapter on African-American Modernisms.

Literary

Red Globe Press

Gathers information about science fiction history, publishers, authors, motion pictures, novels, concepts, and themes

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Clute, John

Science Fiction & Fantasy

St.Martin's Press

Encompassing 4,360 entries that provide critical insight and biographical and bibliographical data, an updated edition of a popular science fiction reference features a carefully cross-referenced format. Original.

St Martins Pr

Work and Identity in the Primary School: A Post-Fordist Analysis

This book offers the first substantial, research-based treatment of the impact of marketization on primary schools. There is a particular focus on shifts in management culture associated with marketization, and the consequences of such shifts for heads, teachers and other school staff. The changing patterns of control and autonomy in the primary school have had significant effects on the identities of schoolworkers. The book, therefore, makes an important contribution to an understanding of markets in education, in a hitherto neglected sector of provision, and breaks new ground in its pursuit of connections between market discourses and emergent managerialism. It thus offers a contribution to the understanding of primary schools as workplaces and to their changing work cultures, to the management of primary schools, and to education policy studies.

Education & Teaching

Pollard, Andrew

Ozga, Jenny

Muschamp, Yolande

Schools & Teaching

Open Univ Pr

Ezra Pound: Politics, economics, and writing : a study of The cantos

Humanities Press

The Science in Science Fiction

An illustrated survey of the actual science behind recent science fiction investigates the frontiers of contemporary scientific knowledge and the possibility, and probability, of starships, cyborgs, time travel, and other "science-fiction" phenomena

Science & Math

KNOPF

Modernisms: A Literary Guide

The recent enthusiasm for things postmodern has often produced a caricature of Modernism as monolithic and reactionary. Peter Nicholls argues instead that the distinctive feature of Modernism is its diversity. Through a lively analysis of each of Modernism's main literary movements, he explores the connections between the new stylistic developments and the shifting politics of gender and authority.Nicholls introduces a wealth of literary experimentation, beginning with Baudelaire and Mallarmé and moving forward to the first avant-gardes. Close readings of key texts monitor the explosive histories of Futurism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism, histories that allow Anglo-American Modernism to be seen in a strikingly different light. In revealing Modernism's broad and varied terrain, Nicholls evokes the richness of a cultural moment that continues to shape our own.

University of California Press

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George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism

George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism

Modernisms: A Literary Guide, Second Edition

Modernisms: A Literary Guide, Second Edition

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Work and Identity in the Primary School: A Post-Fordist Analysis

Ezra Pound: Politics, economics, and writing : a study of The cantos

The Science in Science Fiction

Modernisms: A Literary Guide