Andrew Eastman

Maitre de conferences in the English Department · Marc Bloch University · company speakers →

Maitre de conferences in the English Department at Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, France. He is the author of more than twenty publications (articles and contributions to collective publications) focusing primarily on problems of poetic form in the works of Ezra Pound, George Oppen, Louis Zukofsky, Susan Howe, Wallace Stevens, and Elizabeth Bishop. His most recent work centers on the semantics of grammar, rhythm, sound patterning and questions of voice in 20th-century American poetry; on the theories of language implied and induced by poetic practices; and on the modes and theories of subjectivity produced by representative texts of American modernism. Eastman is currently working on a book-length study of rhythmic practices, orality, and subjectivity in American modernism. Eastman's paper, 'The Ruses of the Sign: Poetic Form, Ordinary Language, and Artifice in Recent American Critical Discourse,' discusses the notion of form in terms of the way it functions in contemporary critical discourse in order to suggest how it has organized certain aspects of poetic practice. The paper will analyze the apparent need for the notion of form in contemporary critical discourse along with the stakes invested in it through a critical discussion of critical presuppositions about form and by investigating the impact that ideas of form have had in certain late twentieth-century writing——exemplarily that of Charles Bernstein.

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