The Poethical Wager
| Author/creator | Retallack, Joan Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press |
| Description | 304 p. ill 23.600 x 016.500 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation In these highly inventive essays, Joan Retallack, acclaimed poet and essayist, conveys her unique post-utopian vision as she explores the relationship between art and life in today's chaotic world. In the tradition of the essay as complex humanist exploration, she engages ideas from across history: Aristotle's definition of happiness, Epicurus's swerve into unpredictable possibility, Montaigne's essays as an instrument of self-invention, John Cage's redefinition of Silence. Within her unifying rubric of poethics, Retallack gives the reader plenty of surprises with a wonderful range of examples, situations, and texts through which she conducts her exploration. A computer glitch, a passage from Gertrude Stein's favorite detective novelist, the idea of the experimental feminine, a John Cage performance--all serve as occasions for inquiry and speculation on the way to her poethics of a "complex realism." |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2002151319 |
| ISBN | 9780520218390 |
| ISBN | 0520218396 (Trade Cloth) Out of Print |
| Standard identifier# | 9780520218390 |
| Stock number | 00027125 |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |