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Dissertation Information for Ronald E Day

NAME:
- Ronald E Day

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Comparative Literature

SCHOOL:
- SUNY, Binghampton (USA) (1990)

ADVISORS:
- Fred Garber

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- None

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected

Title: Beyond epistemology's "thesis of the precedence of method": Language writing as Postmodernism

Abstract: American Language Writing constitutes a gradual critique of Modernist and New American Poetry functions in either their subjective or objective modes. Through differing strategies, Language Writers have, since the early 1970's, been attempting a renegotiation of the relationship of literature and semiotic culture through poetic and theoretical means. This work has resulted in not only a new direction for the poetic Avant-Garde in America, but a more productive political strategy for the contemporary individual faced with thematic and formal control by large scale information systems.

This dissertation attempts to describe the development of such a strategy through a progressive thematic reading of the work of three Language writers (Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, and Barrett Watten). I argue that by virtue of these writers' increasingly distanced stance to epistemology's "thesis of the precedence of method" (Heidegger), Language Writing has been gradually separating itself from poetic Modernism and showing itself as the first 'Postmodern' poetry in the United States.

MPACT Scores for Ronald E Day

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C = 1
A+C = 2
T = 1
G = 1
W = 1
TD = 1
TA = 0
calculated 2014-02-09 17:06:22

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