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Marjorie Perloff

Marjorie Perloff, Sadie D. Patek Professor Emerita of Humanities at Stanford University. Her most recent book is Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire.

Articles

On reading outside the university.

Marjorie Perloff, Johanna Winant
Remembering John Ashbery
Marjorie Perloff
Resurrecting Vladimir Mayakovsky.
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New collections of Ezra Pound's poetry. 
Marjorie Perloff
What Lyn Hejinian's poetry tells us about chance, fortune, and pleasure.
Marjorie Perloff
Put the literature back into literary studies.
Marjorie Perloff

Forums

Today’s poetry establishment commands polite respect but hardly enthusiasm and excitement.
Marjorie Perloff

The Araki Yasusada "hoax" and what it reveals about the politics of poetic identity.

Marjorie Perloff

Forum Responses

Final repsonse: Why does any of this matter?
Marjorie Perloff
For years now, Harold Bloom has been voicing his despair about the state of literary studies in the United States, and here he again he takes the high ground, denouncing “the multiculturalists,...
Marjorie Perloff
I AM GRATIFIED that, by and large, these eight responses concur with my dismay about current editorial and reading-for-authenticity practices. There seems to be consensus on the notion that, as Stephen Owen...
Marjorie Perloff

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