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Irreverently Unromantic: A Rhetorical Path to Sophistic Poetics in the Poetry of Bob Hicok
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 47, Number 2, June 2014
- pp. 135-152
- 10.1353/mos.2014.0024
- Article
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Rhetorical analysis of Bob Hicok’s earliest and most recent poems reveals how the poet modifies the terms of the central problem in contemporary poetry—Romantic irony—by employing an irreverent poetics I describe as sophistic to highlight its rhetorical tendencies while differentiating it from the inverted Platonism of Romantic irony.