Irreverently unromantic: A rhetorical path to sophistic poetics in the poetry of Bob Hicok
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
Rhetorical analysis of Bob Hicok’s earliest and most recent poems reveals how the poet modifies the terms of the central problem in contemporary poetry—Romantic irony—by employing an irreverent poetics I describe as sophistic to highlight its rhetorical tendencies while differentiating it from the inverted Platonism of Romantic irony.
Recommended Citation
Hendrickson, Brian. "Irreverently Unromantic: A Rhetorical Path to Sophistic Poetics in the Poetry of Bob Hicok." Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, vol. 47 no. 2, 2014, pp. 135-152. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/547065.
Comments
Published in: Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol. 47, no. 2, 2014.