American Hybrid Poetics: Gender, Mass Culture, and Form

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Gertrude Stein’s Blood on the Dining-Room Floor: Hybrid Poetics in Modernist/Mass Culture 20 2 Laura Mullen’s Murmur: Crime Fiction, Cruel Optimism, and a Hybrid Poetics of Affect 44 3 Alice Notley’s Disobedience: The Postmodern Subject, Paranoia, and a New Poetics of Noir 71 4 Harryette Mullen’s Poetics in Prose: A Return to the Modernist Hybrid 100 5 Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: A Lyrical Long Poem in a Post-Language Age 124 Notes 151 Index 165 ...