I Am Otherwise: The Romance Between Poetry and Theory after the Death of the Subject
I am Otherwise: The Romance between Poetry and Theory after the Death of the Subject examines the contemporary poet's relationship with language in the age of theory. As the book works through close readings and interpretations of Adrienne Rich and Harold Bloom, John Ashbery and Paul de Man, Jorie Graham and Maurice Blanchot, and Barrett Watten and Jacques Lacan, it shows how the main psychological modes of contemporary poetry and the postmodern poet are anxiety, irony, abjection, and...
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I am Otherwise: The Romance between Poetry and Theory after the Death of the Subject examines the contemporary poet's relationship with language in the age of theory. As the book works through close readings and interpretations of Adrienne Rich and Harold Bloom, John Ashbery and Paul de Man, Jorie Graham and Maurice Blanchot, and Barrett Watten and Jacques Lacan, it shows how the main psychological modes of contemporary poetry and the postmodern poet are anxiety, irony, abjection, and destitution. The book ultimately concludes that the new theoretical poetry self-consciously renders the effect of critical theory in its own construction. Whereas poets of the past tarried with nature, self, or philosophy, poets of our time unite lyric feeling with literary theory itself.
Subjectivity, Poetry, Theory, DeathA Brief History of Death in Poetry 3Post-Structuralist Theory Romances Postmodern Poetry 15The Blooming Anxiety of Post-Structuralist Thought 21A Rich Inflammation or a Dead Bloom? The Poetry of Adrienne Rich and the Theory of Harold BloomA History of Death in Rich 31Blooming with Language / Dying in Language 48The Wreck of Language 63John Ashbery's Demand for Self-ReflectionThe Riches and the Limits of Language 78From Bloomian Anxiety to de Manian Irony 95The Demands of Reading and Writing 108Jorie Graham: Hollows and VoidsSkinning Matters 129The Void of Literature 143Outside Indifference 155Barrett Watten: From the Other Side of the MachineAnxiety-Irony-Anguish-Obsession 168Welcome to the Machine 178The Destitute Machine 197The Convergence of Poetry and TheoryA Brief History of Death in Poetry (Reprise) 212When Poetry and Theory Meet 216Notes 222Glossary 237Bibliography 239
