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A Serpentine Gesture: John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology
In "A Serpentine Gesture": John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology Elisabeth W. Joyce examines John Ashbery's poetry through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's conception of phenomenology. For Merleau-Ponty, perception is a process through which people reach outside of themselves for sensory information, map that experiential information against what they have previously encountered and what is culturally inculcated in them, and articulate shifts in their internal repositories through encounters with new material. Joyce argues that this process reflects Ashbery's classic statement of poetry being the "experience of experience." Through incisive close readings of Ashbery's poems, Joyce examines how he explores this process of continual reverberation between what is sensed and what is considered about that sensation and, ultimately, how he renders these perceptions into the "serpentine gesture" of language.

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A Serpentine Gesture: John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology
In "A Serpentine Gesture": John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology Elisabeth W. Joyce examines John Ashbery's poetry through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's conception of phenomenology. For Merleau-Ponty, perception is a process through which people reach outside of themselves for sensory information, map that experiential information against what they have previously encountered and what is culturally inculcated in them, and articulate shifts in their internal repositories through encounters with new material. Joyce argues that this process reflects Ashbery's classic statement of poetry being the "experience of experience." Through incisive close readings of Ashbery's poems, Joyce examines how he explores this process of continual reverberation between what is sensed and what is considered about that sensation and, ultimately, how he renders these perceptions into the "serpentine gesture" of language.

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A Serpentine Gesture: John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology

A Serpentine Gesture: John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology

by Elisabeth W. Joyce
A Serpentine Gesture: John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology

A Serpentine Gesture: John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology

by Elisabeth W. Joyce

Overview

In "A Serpentine Gesture": John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology Elisabeth W. Joyce examines John Ashbery's poetry through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's conception of phenomenology. For Merleau-Ponty, perception is a process through which people reach outside of themselves for sensory information, map that experiential information against what they have previously encountered and what is culturally inculcated in them, and articulate shifts in their internal repositories through encounters with new material. Joyce argues that this process reflects Ashbery's classic statement of poetry being the "experience of experience." Through incisive close readings of Ashbery's poems, Joyce examines how he explores this process of continual reverberation between what is sensed and what is considered about that sensation and, ultimately, how he renders these perceptions into the "serpentine gesture" of language.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826363817
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 06/15/2022
Series: Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elisabeth W. Joyce is a professor at Edinboro University. She is also the author of Cultural Critique and Abstraction: Marianne Moore and the Avant-Garde and "The Small Space of a Pause": Susan Howe's Poetry and the Spaces Between.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations

Chapter One. Ashbery and Phenomenology
Chapter Two. Perception and Experience
Chapter Three. Time, Lyric, and Perception
Chapter Four. Space
Chapter Five. Memory: "That Stalled Moment"
Chapter Six. Motility and Motricity
Chapter Seven. Order and Meaning: The Transcendence of the Everyday

Notes
Works Cited
Credits
Index

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