The Poethical Wager by Retallack, Joan

The Poethical Wager (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520218413)

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The Poethical Wager by Retallack, Joan

The Poethical Wager

$34.95
The Poethical Wager by Retallack, Joan

The Poethical Wager

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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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 history: 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."

Author: Joan Retallack
ISBN-10: 0520218418
ISBN-13: 9780520218413
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 03/04/2004
Pages: 291
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.32w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2004 pg. 96
By Joan Retallack
By Joan Retallack
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Joan Retallack is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College. She is author of How to Do Things with Words (1998), Musicage: Cage Muses on Words Art Music (1996), Afterrimages (1995), and Errata 5uite (1993), among other books.

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