from "'The desire for an inclusive object': Modernist Poetics, Pedagogy, and Context."

Ultimately, Objectivist poems call for the development of a pedagogy that can do justice to the poeticity of language and its relationship to culture/society. The desire for the "inclusive object" implies a poem whose relation to the world allows it to be constructed of particulars from within the world but to organize them within the new context of the poem for propositions about the world. An adequate pedagogy would need to resist: 1) the internalizing contextualism of New Criticism which treats the poem as autonomous, self-contained object; and 2) the externalizing strategies of cultural studies which read the poem against a socio-historical ground, ultimately reducing it to a symptom or an incident in a prior narrative.