I Am Otherwise: The Romance between Poetry and Theory after the Death of the Subject

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I am Otherwise: The Romance between Poetry and Theory after the Death of the Subject examines the contemporary poet's relationship with language in the age of theory. As the book works through close readings and interpretations of Adrienne Rich and Harold Bloom, John Ashbery and Paul de Man, Jorie Graham and Maurice Blanchot, and Barrett Watten and Jacques Lacan, it shows how the main psychological modes of contemporary poetry and the postmodern poet are anxiety, irony, abjection, and destitution. The book ultimately concludes that the new theoretical poetry self-consciously renders the effect of critical theory in its own construction. Whereas poets of the past tarried with nature, self, or philosophy, poets of our time unite lyric feeling with literary theory itself.

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Alex E. Blazer earned his doctorate in twentieth-century literature and critical theory from Ohio State University. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisville, where he teaches American literature and critical theory. He has published numerous articles and is currently working on a book-length, psychoanalytical study of contemporary American novels by Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, William H. Gass, Bret Easton Ellis, and Mark Z. Danielewski.