Coda: Reading Duncan Reading Stein

Investigating the Robert Duncan Notebooks held in the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo, this paper offers insights into the various manners in which Duncan read Gertrude Stein revealing his predilections, and comparisons. Most significantly we note emerging a germinal Poetics of Incohe...

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Main Author: Steve McCaffery
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Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2020-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/10061
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description Investigating the Robert Duncan Notebooks held in the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo, this paper offers insights into the various manners in which Duncan read Gertrude Stein revealing his predilections, and comparisons. Most significantly we note emerging a germinal Poetics of Incoherence and Disintegration, and a wholesale attack on grammatical order that aligns both Stein and Duncan himself with the avant-garde trajectories of Hugo Ball’s “poetry without words” and Marinetti’s “words in freedom.”
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Coda: Reading Duncan Reading Stein
Sillages Critiques
Gertrude Stein
poetics
Robert Duncan
coherence
incoherence
title Coda: Reading Duncan Reading Stein
title_full Coda: Reading Duncan Reading Stein
title_fullStr Coda: Reading Duncan Reading Stein
title_full_unstemmed Coda: Reading Duncan Reading Stein
title_short Coda: Reading Duncan Reading Stein
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topic Gertrude Stein
poetics
Robert Duncan
coherence
incoherence
url https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/10061
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