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| [T]here is a long
critical tradition of viewing the 'textiness' of a poetic text as engaged only with the
aesthetic realm, with the rich history of its own genre, and with the nuanced
intermingling of philosophy and language practice that go by the name of 'poetics.' . . .
Therefore, in attempting culturalist readings of poetry, critics are struggling with and
against accepted institutionalized paradigms for the analysis of that genre. . . .
When we say we want to study Objectivist poets via a cultural poetics, we are, at one and
the same time, trying to present culturalist readings--that is, readings alert to the
material world, politics, society, and history--and, as well, readings analyzing the
poetic assumptions and textual choices that animate a set of practitioners. (DuPlessis and Quartermain, "Introduction," The Objectivist Nexus 20-21) |
Cultural Poetics 