WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW最新文献

{"title":"The birth of the imagination: William Carlos Williams on form by Bruce Holsapple (review)","authors":"Alec Marsh","doi":"10.1353/WCW.2017.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/WCW.2017.0011","url":null,"abstract":"This is a thoughtful, admirable, rather dense book tracing the development of Williams’s thinking about poetic structure from his earliest Poems (1909) through The Wedge (1944). Holsapple’s discussion is not limited to the poetry only, but devotes considerable attention to parsing Williams’s often less than crystal clear thinking as expressed in prose, including the Contact editorials of the early twenties, A Novelette, The Great American Novel, the “Rome” manuscript, In the American Grain, The Embodiment of Knowledge, and more familiar essays, closing with the famous “Author’s Introduction” to The Wedge (SE 255–7). The book is a “developmental study of the form, structure and content of Williams’s poems, of how structure informs what his poems ‘say’ and”—here Holsapple quotes from “Against the Weather” (SE 217)—“why the ‘altered structure of the inevitable revolution must be in the poem’” (4). Of course, the poetry is scrutinized too—often with great intensity and grasp of linguistic detail. The tone is conversational but rigorous; that of an authoritative, experienced teacher. You’ll want to keep your copies of the Collected Poems, Volume One and Imaginations nearby as you read, for this is one of those strong critical books that demands we go back, reread and reconsider the work under discussion. A very crude sketch map of the book’s route would begin with the early material, especially “The Wanderer” and on to the “propositional,”","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":"34 1","pages":"158 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/WCW.2017.0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47706626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Walking with William Carlos Williams","authors":"T. Crawford","doi":"10.1353/WCW.2017.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/WCW.2017.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the \"Walking\" section of William Carlos Williams's Paterson Book Two is usefully juxtaposed against comments Williams makes about his development of the variable foot ten years later.","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":"34 1","pages":"109 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/WCW.2017.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66553400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dismantling Clinical Authority in Paterson","authors":"Alisa Allkins","doi":"10.1353/WCW.2017.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/WCW.2017.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how the relationship between William Carlos Williams and Marcia Nardi as represented by the \"Cress\" letters in Williams's modernist epic Paterson challenges the doctor/patient and normal/pathological binaries established by clinical practice. It argues that the dialectical tension between the masculine and feminine created by the hybrid construction of Paterson echoes psychoanalytic writings on femininity by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, reading the work in relationship to Michel Foucault's theory of the archive in The Order of Things .","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":"34 1","pages":"129 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/WCW.2017.0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45870218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Abbreviations for Titles by William Carlos Williams","authors":"Bryce Conrad, T. Crawford, R. Abella, Alisa Allkins, Yi-Ting Chang, J. Broome, Alec Marsh, Terence Diggory","doi":"10.1353/wcw.2017.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wcw.2017.0005","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article explores connections between Dadaism and William Carlos Williams. Williams's attitude toward Dadaism was ambivalent. However, he made ample use of the radical strategies of Dadaism to compose four of his more experimental and less studied texts, namely: Kora in Hell (1920), Spring and All (1923), The Great American Novel (1923), and the purely Dadaist A Novelette (1932). Dadaism provided Williams with the techniques (illogicality, collage, parody, contradiction, playfulness, confrontation, automatic writing, chaos) and the conceptual scaffolding he needed to pursue his self-appointed—and intrinsically Dadaist—mission to both wipe out and revive American literature.","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":"34 1","pages":"109 - 110 - 128 - 129 - 152 - 153 - 157 - 158 - 167 - 168 - 172 - 93 - iii - iii - iv - iv"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/wcw.2017.0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44312899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In Memoriam","authors":"Bryce Conrad","doi":"10.1353/wcw.2017.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wcw.2017.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Stokowski accepting his honorary membership in 1 5 8 L eopold Stokowski died in En-gland at the age of 95. Born in London in 1882, Stokowski rose to international prominence as a controversial and influential conductor. He was named an honorary member of the Audio Engineering Society in 1958 for his outstanding contribution to the field-for his ability to combine audio engineering with esthetics to produce the ultimate in music. When Stokowski came to America in 1905 as an organist. he had almost no conducting experience. He took over the Cincinnati Orchestra in 1909 and three years later he became conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which moved from a secondary rank to a place of prominence under his direction. There his reputation as an intuitive and inspirational conductor was established and the legendary Stokowski sound was ordained. Always experimental and innovative , Stokowski created the first light and music presentation, and despite criticism continued to perform the music of new composers, asserting \"the new generation [of Stravinsky, Schonberg and Shostakovich] must be heard.\" In 1931 he made some of the first commercial long-playing recordings: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Schonberg's \"Gurrelieder.\" He soon became known as the \"godfather of high fidelity. \" In addition to his extraordinary reputation as a musician, Stokowski was considered somewhat of a maverick in his defense of all forms of music. He maintained that \"the history of popular music showed that it was the true art form of the people.\" In fulfilling his goal \"to make the greatest kind of music available to everyone\" he recorded some 20 albums after the age of 90 under a contract which would have extended to his centennial. The man leaves a legacy ; and the Audio Engineering Society joins the many who mourn his death. E dwin Beemish, Life Member of the AES, died in New Jersey at the age of 70. In the course of his career, Mr. Beemish worked in shop production and field service of audio engineering, specializing in the areas of broadcasting and recording. A Charter Member of the Delaware Valley Radio Association, M r. Beemish ran his own radio business for 17 years. His work consisted of development, installation and operation of broadcast studios, wired music and recording studios. He was involved in designing and building audio equipment used in conjunction with synchronized mechanical displays.","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":"34 1","pages":"iv - iv"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/wcw.2017.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41452786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The (Non)Modern Imagination of a Noisy Williams","authors":"A. Hernandez","doi":"10.1353/WCW.2017.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/WCW.2017.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates William Carlos Williams's philosophical investment in relational ways of knowing the world by re-reading the poems in his 1923 collection Spring and All through the lens of the poet's prose. Bringing into focus the noisy aesthetic aims that Williams outlines in the prose passages and that are at play in the poems themselves, Spring and All is read not for what it means but for how it means, taking noisy Williams at his word and asking not how poetic language represents but how it mediates. The article extends pragmatist approaches to Williams's poetry by turning to Bruno Latour's theory of (non)modernity and new media theories in order to articulate the poet's interest in the translations and exchanges that occur beneath the binaries that moderns have produced.","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":"34 1","pages":"64 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/WCW.2017.0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42791539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Centrality of Seeing in Journey to Love","authors":"J. Westover","doi":"10.1353/WCW.2017.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/WCW.2017.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines scenes of looking and watching that recur throughout Williams's 1955 collection Journey to Love and suggests that acts of seeing provide a poetic paradigm for the book. In some of the best poems in Journey to Love Williams envisions the act of looking in relational terms, which prevents the book as a whole from becoming solipsistic. The article compares this late work to Williams's precise and unallegorical depiction of the world in his earlier poems. Williams ultimately turns from poetic iconoclasm to imaginative synthesis, connecting the parts of the world he singles out for attention through his characteristically keen observations.","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":"34 1","pages":"31 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/WCW.2017.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45974573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thom Gunn and William Carlos Williams","authors":"August Kleinzahler","doi":"10.1353/WCW.2017.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/WCW.2017.0000","url":null,"abstract":"This article underlines the influence of William Carlos Williams on English language poetry and focuses on his importance in particular to the British poet Thom Gunn. The issue of the academic resistance to acknowledging the importance of Williams to the development of American poetry is raised against the backdrop of his enduring impact on voices such as Gunn and also that of the article's author, August Kleinzahler.","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":"34 1","pages":"1 - 11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/WCW.2017.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41787517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Eye of the Beholder: Voyeurism and Surveillance in Williams's Speaker/Reader Matrix","authors":"Irena Praitis","doi":"10.1353/WCW.2017.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/WCW.2017.0003","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article underlines how Williams explores a range of ideologies associated with observation, inviting readers to consider how ideological frames of reference impact what we see. Williams's work on seeing and the positioning of the viewer is here aligned with the work of painters, Degas in particular, occasionally positioning the viewer as an observer, a voyeur, of people unaware of that observation. Williams's poem \"The Young Housewife,\" is analyzed for its voyeuristic frames of reference, while the power dynamics of seeing and surveillance are examined in Paterson through Williams's inclusion of the Cress letters. The article considers Williams's relationship to such dynamics and asks what we sacrifice when we cease to question the parameters of surveillance and the potential abuses of power associated with it.","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":"34 1","pages":"49 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/WCW.2017.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43958496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Williams, Thom Gunn, and Humane Attention","authors":"Calista Mcrae","doi":"10.1353/WCW.2017.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/WCW.2017.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on Thom Gunn's poetry, criticism, and teaching notes, this article explores Williams's influence on an Anglo-American better known for his traditional forms—an unlikely apprentice. From his first labored imitations to his late amalgams, Gunn follows what he calls Williams's \"essential tenderness\": an attention to the lives of ordinary people. In poems that focus on severely disregarded, dehumanized individuals—the homeless, as well as the institutionalized—Gunn builds on the affinities he shares with Williams, while adapting the older poet's distinct strengths to his own abilities. He brings Williams's resonant perceptions into poems grounded in bodily sensation: he thereby invites his readers to consider the lives of the overlooked from a new perspective.","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":"34 1","pages":"12 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/WCW.2017.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44081961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}