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Author(s): Joan Retallack
ISBN(s): 9780520218390, 0520218396
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.87 MB
Year: 2003
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0520218396 
ISBN 13: 9780520218390
Author: Joan Retallack

In these highly inventive essays, Joan Retallack, acclaimed poet and essayist, conveys her unique post-utopian vision as she explores the relationship between art and life in today’s chaotic world. In the tradition of the essay as complex humanist exploration, she engages ideas from across Aristotle’s definition of happiness, Epicurus’s swerve into unpredictable possibility, Montaigne’s essays as an instrument of self-invention, John Cage’s redefinition of Silence. Within her unifying rubric of poethics, Retallack gives the reader plenty of surprises with a wonderful range of examples, situations, and texts through which she conducts her exploration. A computer glitch, a passage from Gertrude Stein’s favorite detective novelist, the idea of the experimental feminine, a John Cage performance–all serve as occasions for inquiry and speculation on the way to her poethics of a “complex realism.”

The Poethical Wager 1st Table of contents:

  1. Introduction: Essay as Wager

  2. The Poethical Wager

  3. Wager as Essay

  4. Blue Notes on the Know Ledge

  5. Poethics of the Improbable: Rosmarie Waldrop and the Uses of Form

  6. The Experimental Feminine

  7. The Scarlet Aitch: Twenty-Six Notes on the Experimental Feminine

  8. Re:Thinking:Literary:Feminism: (Three Essays onto Shaky Grounds)

  9. The Difficulties of Gertrude Stein, I & II

  10. Four on John Cage

  11. Geometries of Attention

  12. Fig. 1, Ground Zero, Fig. 2: John Cage — May 18, 2005

  13. Poethics of a Complex Realism

  14. Uncaged Words: John Cage in Dialogue with Chance

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