ABSTRACT:This article explores the innovative use of punctuation marks in William Carlos Williams’s epic poem Paterson. Paying close attention to the typographical features of the poem, it argues that Williams aligns the textual surface with social spaces and uses the exclamation mark and the dash creatively in his modern epic to problematize the dynamic between the human subject and the vernacular landscape. These typographical idiosyncrasies are testimony to Williams’s vision of a localist poetics that is rooted in the American soil.
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This issue is dedicated to the memory of Bryce Conrad, editor of the William Carlos Williams Review from 2004 to 2010, who died on 14 September 2017 after a long battle with brain cancer. On announcing the news of Bryce’s death to the Board of the journal and to the membership of the Williams Society, a warmth of feeling pervaded the responses both of those who knew him well or had only known him through correspondences. As tends to be the rhythm of friendships in academia they are often fed only by meeting at conferences but can be established in advance by knowing a person through their writing. I certainly had my first impression of Bryce through reading Refiguring America as a postgraduate in Leeds. To then be in contact with him by email confirmed what I felt on finally meeting him in person, namely that he was a warm, genuine, engaged and interested man, who could put you at ease in an instant. It remains the proudest moment of my professional life when, after guest editing the Spring issue of the Review in 2009, we did indeed meet at an MLA conference and he then asked me to take on the editorship of the journal. I can only begin to imagine the struggles Bryce had in keeping the journal going until his illness demanded he step back, and I will always be grateful to him for trusting me with a publication that he had revived in 2004 after its six-year publication hiatus. Indeed, Bryce’s wife, Anastasia Coles, noted that Bryce’s role in getting the Review back on its feet was something he regarded “as a highlight of his career. It gave him a chance to be connected with scholarship when his teaching and administrative duties tended to eat up all his time. He was always distraught though about not being able to give it as much time as he had wanted.” In the celebration of Bryce’s work that follows I was happy to include his 1995 essay on Gertrude Stein both to complement its place in Todd Giles’s heartfelt recollection of his mentor and friend and to offer a sense of Bryce’s own academic starting points and interests. I am also grateful to John Lowney for sharing his memories of Bryce and for reflecting on the work of history and of language that helped bring so many of us closer to both Williams and ultimately to the much missed author of Refiguring America, Bryce Conrad.
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ABSTRACT:The author offers a personal reflection on the influence of Bryce Conrad as teacher and mentor. He emphasizes Bryce’s generosity and concern for his students at Texas Tech University. The article invites contributions to the Bryce Conrad Memorial Scholarship Fund in English established in Bryce’s honor.
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ABSTRACT:The author investigates the range of historical sources used by William Carlos Williams to support his writing of his 1925 history of America, In the American Grain and argues that Williams sought to show how such narratives were constructed by refusing or disrupting their authoritative status. Conrad contends that Williams’s wish to wage a war on historians was contradicted by the latter’s reliance on historians’ sources. In the American Grain is seen to be a modernist act of historical writing in which the author educates himself about the processes involved in the making of US historical narratives while seeking to disrupt notions of historical verisimilitude.
摘要：作者调查了威廉·卡洛斯·威廉姆斯（William Carlos Williams）为支持他1925年的美国史《美国谷物》（In The American Grain）而使用的一系列历史资料，并认为威廉姆斯试图通过拒绝或破坏其权威地位来展示这些叙事是如何构建的。康拉德认为，威廉姆斯向历史学家发动战争的愿望与后者对历史学家来源的依赖相矛盾。在《美国谷物》中，作者被视为一种现代主义的历史写作行为，在这种行为中，作者自学美国历史叙事的制作过程，同时试图打破历史真实性的概念。
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ABSTRACT:This article offers a personal reflection on the impact of Bryce Conrad’s historiography in his 1990 critical work Refiguring America. The author highlights Conrad’s efforts to emphasize the importance of language in William Carlos Williams’s history of America, In the American Grain, published in 1925, through his analysis of the various rhetorical and narrative strategies that Williams employed.
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In contrast to a method of American studies focused on democratic themes such as individualism, or the role of art in a democratic society, The Search for a Democratic Aesthetics proposes that particular artworks are “doing democratic theory” using the formal resources of art. The first part of the book provides a theoretical framework by defining democracy as egalitarianism, or the equal respect for autonomous persons; as pluralism, or how individuals come together while maintaining their distinctive identities; and openness, or the idea that democracy is an ongoing process (19). These three dimensions of democracy offer a schematic outline of contemporary democratic theory to organize the interpretive chapters that follow on the paintings of Robert Rauschenberg, the photographs of Walker Evans, and the poems of William Carlos Williams. The method of critical analysis in The Search for a Democratic Aesthetics makes use of interactionist theories of metaphor to map relations across the conceptual domains of art and social structures. And these relations provides an organizational structure for the methodological challenge of discussing how particular aesthetic strategies share characteristics (or interact) with democratic theory across the distinct practices of painting, photography, and poetry. These metaphorical relationships include links BOOK Review
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ABSTRACT:The article highlights Gertrude Stein’s struggles with American publishers to accept her modernist work and her initial unwillingness to popularize herself to break into that market. This was achieved with the success of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas published serially in 1933. The article traces her subsequent struggles with ideas of marketing her personality over and above her work as she engaged in an American tour in 1934.
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{"title":"Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Ann Marie Mikkelsen (review)","authors":"Terence Diggory","doi":"10.1353/WCW.2017.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/WCW.2017.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":"34 1","pages":"168 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/WCW.2017.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46667071","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":"William Carlos Williams Bibliography 2015–16","authors":"Yi-Ting Chang, J. Broome","doi":"10.1353/wcw.2017.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wcw.2017.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":"34 1","pages":"153 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/wcw.2017.0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45831499","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}
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,”
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