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A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities: The Gift, the Wager, and Poethics (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics) by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities: The Gift, the Wager, and Poethics (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics) about?

This book offers a new reading of Marcell Mauss’ and Lewis Hyde’s theories of poetry as gift, exploring poetry exchanges within 20th and 21st century communities of poets, publishers, audiences and readers operating along a gift economy. The text considers trans-Atlantic case studies across fields of performance and ecopoetics, small press publishing and poetry institutions, with focus on Joan Retallack, Bob Holman, Anne Waldman, Bob Cobbing, and feminist performance. Elizabeth-Jane Burnett focu

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Publisher
Springer International Publishing Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9783319622941
Category
literary studies
Subjects
Philosophy, Poetry, Literary Fiction
Updated
2026-03-25

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