Spd of Snd. Grace of Lt: Joan Retallack's "WESTERN CIV" and the "Cultural Logic" of the Postmodern Poem
1994; University of Wisconsin Press; Volume: 35; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1208695
ISSN1548-9949
AutoresAlan Devenish, Joan Retallack,
Tópico(s)Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
ResumoFirst find the pulse // Just fission / in a nuclear age / What did Beowulf, Little Red Riding Hood and Hamlet have in common? / 4251 B.c.: History begins / repeats itself / Pull up those socks Happy days are here despite loss of elevated language, dial time, etc. / Be, etc. / / Clockwise is knowing your place in time / 3500 B.C. harps and flutes played in Egypt / And then she says, Like Hell! // (Let me introduce myself) yes, and this and this / they come (all of them) and go w/th spd of snd & It & we in them move with them toward history / This is what I want to have happened, thinking of them, our children approaching with the grace of sound and light, no need to rehearse next installment hold on don't let it go get it down quick // (WESTERN CIV, sec. 1)1
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