Charles Altieri: 2 books
Reckoning with the Imagination
Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles Altieri believes they ultimately fall short because...
The Objectivist Nexus
Essays in Cultural Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
"Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological...