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Lecture by Marjorie Perloff: "Conceptual Poetry and the Question of Emotion"
- Date
- February 13, 2014
- Time
- 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. ET
- Location
- Ryerson University Jorgenson Hall, 14th Floor, Room 1402 380 Victoria Street
- Open To
- Students, Prospective Students, Public
- Contact
- literature@torontomu.ca
Poetry is usually equated with lyric poetry, with the expressive utterance of an individual subject that ���speaks��� to a sympathetic readership. But suppose the text is a ���plagiarized��� or recycled version of other texts? Can such appropriative poetry satisfy the emotional demand of the audience or is it mere game-playing, mere intellectual exercise? Using examples from the work of Kenneth Goldsmith and Vanessa Place, from the Brazilian poet Andr辿 Vallias���s TRAKLTRAKT and from Christian Marclay���s THE CLOCK, Perloff argues that contemporary conceptual poetry can generate powerful emotions. Marjorie Perloff is the author of over 13 books on twentieth and twenty-first century poetry and poetics, as well as on intermedia and the visual arts. Her books include
The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage (1981),
The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the Language of Rupture (1986, new edition 1994),
Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media (1992),
Wittgenstein���s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary (1996),
21st Century Modernism (2002),
Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy (2005) ��� and most recently,
UNORIGINAL GENIUS: Poetry by Other Means in the Twenty-First Century (2010). She is Professor Emerita of English at Stanford University and Florence R. Scott Professor of English Emerita at the University of Southern California.