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A Poverty of Objects

The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre
By:Jonathan Monroe
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Print ISBN:9780801419676
eText ISBN:9781501746116
Edition:0
Copyright:1987
Format:Page Fidelity

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The prose poem, Jonathan Monroe asserts, is the genre that does not want to be itself. In his view, the dominant literary historical role of the prose poem has been to test the limits of generic constraints. Monroe here undertakes a comparative and historical investigation of the problematic relationship between prose and poetry and of the development of the prose poem over the past two centuries.