Savage Sight/Constructed Noise
Poetic Adaptations of Painterly Techniques in the French and American Avant-Gardes
By David LeHardy Sweet
320 pp., 6 x 9
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-9281-7
Published: December 2003
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Selected poems are examined in light of the critical essays and are taken either as illustrations of a new plastic poetic or as novel hybrids of plastic and literary strategies. Although the parallels between modern poetry and painting go beyond avant-garde techniques, this book emphasizes such innovations as collage, chance operations, and automatism to demonstrate the shift in aesthetic attention from finished products to creative processes.
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David LeHardy Sweet is Assistant Professor of literature in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at The American University in Cairo.
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