Little magazines in the development of language poetry
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Universidad de La Laguna
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- Sonia Bravo Utrera (coord.)
Publisher: Departamento de Filología Moderna ; Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
ISBN: 8460764230
Year of publication: 2001
Pages: 259-271
Congress: Encuentro de Estudios de Filología Moderna y Traducción (1. 2001. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
This essay considers the significant role of little magazines in American avant-garde poetic scene at the turn of the twentieth century. My claim is that the relationship between some contemporary philosophical approaches and new poetic modes have provided the ground for explaining their significance in the development of contemporary American poetry. We see this clearly in the works of the so-called language poets, in which the prevalence of a new consciousness was developed mainly through the publication of little magazines like L=a=n=g=u=a=g=e, Oculist Witnesses, 100 Posters, Hills, Miam This, Toothpick, Lisbon and the Orcan Islands, and Tottel’s, to mention just a few. This new consciousness opposed restricted social norms and proposed a new political role for the individual, introducing new ways of interpreting and analyzing the functions of language