Poetry and Poetics issue now LIVE!

 

JML 43.4 (Summer 2020), on the theme "Poetry and Poetics: from Pound and Moore to Trisha Low and J.H. Prynne" is now live on JSTOR  and Project Muse. 

Content includes:

Andrew Williamson

Pound “re/ sound”

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Lukas Moe

“Not anyone’s Eden”: A Critical Introduction to New Poems by George Oppen

Zuzana Říhová

“Farewell to the Whole Epoch”: The Zone as the Beginning and End of the Czech Avant-garde

Lucy Harlow

“To Snare among the Briars”: Sensory Data and Two Early Literary Influences on In Parenthesis

Laura Blomvall

“Yet the frame held”: Poetic Form and the Bombing of London during World War II 

Jennifer Soong

The “To-Do” List Poem: Prospective Memory and a New York School Genre

Elina Siltanen

Conceptual Confession: Asymmetrical Emotion in Writer-Reader Relations in Trisha Low’s The Compleat Purge

Jerome J.H. Lim

Recurrence and Remembrance: Reading J.H. Prynne’s “Reach Up” and “Morning” from Al-Dente (2014) 

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Eric Keenaghan

The Age of Olson

Rachel Trousdale

Reconceiving Marianne Moore

Feng Dong

The Poetic Pendulum: Valéry and Modern American Poetry 

Ann Marie Jakubowski and Vincent Sherry

David Jones and the Question of Poetic Coherence: New Approaches to his Later Work

Martin Lockerd

Theological Poetics between the Wars

Laura Vrana

Criticism and the Justification of Modernism

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Book News: Contemporary women writers and artists and their uniquely feminine ethics of desire

The Aesthetic Clinic: Feminine Sublimation in Contemporary Writing, Psychoanalysis, and Art

BY FERNANDA NEGRETE

State University of New York Press, September 2020

Hardcover: 978-1-4384-8021-3, $95

http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6962-the-aesthetic-clinic.aspx

The Aesthetic Clinic examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience.

BOOK NEWS is an online-only feature announcing new publications in modernist and contemporary literary studies. These announcements do not constitute an endorsement by the Journal of Modern Literature.

In The Aesthetic Clinic, Fernanda Negrete brings together contemporary women writers and artists well known for their formal experimentation—Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Lygia Clark, Marguerite Duras, Roni Horn, and Clarice Lispector—to argue that the aesthetic experiences afforded by their work are underwritten by a tenacious and uniquely feminine ethics of desire. To elaborate this ethics, Negrete looks to notions of sublimation and feminine sexuality developed by Freud, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Nietzsche, and their reinvention with and after Jacques Lacan, including in the schizoanalysis of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. But she also highlights how psychoanalytic theory draws on writing and other creative practices to conceive of unconscious processes and the transformation sought through analysis. Thus, the “aesthetic clinic” of the book’s title (a term Negrete adopts from Deleuze) is not an applied psychoanalysis or schizoanalysis. Rather, The Aesthetic Clinic privileges the call and constraints issued by each woman’s individual work. Engaging an artwork here is less about retrieving a hidden meaning through interpretation than about receiving a precise transmission of sensation, a jouissance irreducible to meaning. Not only do art and literature serve an urgent clinical function in Negrete’s reading but sublimation itself requires an embrace of femininity.

“Intellectually ambitious, original, cross-disciplinary, and coherently argued, there is much to admire in this book.” 

— Margaret Iversen, author of Photography, Trace, and Trauma

At the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Fernanda Negrete is assistant professor of French and executive director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture.