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Marcel Duchamp once asked whether it is possible to make something that is not a work of art. This question returns over and over in modernist culture, where there are no longer any authoritative criteria for what can be identified (or excluded) as a work of art. As William Carlos Williams says, ?A poem can be made of anything, ? even newspaper clippings. In this provocative study, Bruns answers that the culture of modernism is a kind of anarchist community, where the work of art is apt to be as much an event or experience?or, indeed, an alternative form of life?as a formal object. In modern…mehr

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Marcel Duchamp once asked whether it is possible to make something that is not a work of art. This question returns over and over in modernist culture, where there are no longer any authoritative criteria for what can be identified (or excluded) as a work of art. As William Carlos Williams says, ?A poem can be made of anything, ? even newspaper clippings. In this provocative study, Bruns answers that the culture of modernism is a kind of anarchist community, where the work of art is apt to be as much an event or experience?or, indeed, an alternative form of life?as a formal object. In modern writing, philosophy and poetry fold into one another. In this book, Bruns helps us to see how
Autorenporträt
Gerald L. Bruns is the William P. & Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. His books include: Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language; Inventions: Writing, Textuality and Understanding in Literary History; Heidegger¿s Estrangements: Language, Truth, and Poetry in the Later Writings; Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern; and Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy. His most recent book is The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics.