Marjorie Perloff
Marjorie Perloff | |
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| Born | Gabriele Schüller Mintz September 28, 1931 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | March 24, 2024 (aged 92) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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Joseph K. Perloff
(m. 1953; died 2014) |
| Children | 2, including Carey Perloff |
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| Main interests | Modern poetry and poetics |
| Notable works | Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media
"Private Notebooks: 1914–1916" "Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century" |
Marjorie Perloff[needs IPA] (born Gabriele Mintz; September 28, 1931 – March 24, 2024) was an Austrian-born American poetry scholar and critic, known for her study of avant-garde poetry.[1]
Perloff was a professor at Catholic University, the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Southern California and Stanford University.[2][3]
She wrote books about
Early life
Perloff was born Gabriele Schüller Mintz on September 28, 1931, into a secularized Jewish family in
After attending
Career
Perloff taught at Catholic University from 1966 to 1971. She then moved on to become Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park (1971–1976) and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California (1976–1986) and Stanford University (1986–1990). Her position was endowed as the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities at Stanford (1990—2000; emerita from 2001). She was also Florence Scott Professor of English Emerita at the University of Southern California.[2][3]
Her work has been especially concerned with explicating the writing of experimental and
The first three books published by Perloff each focused on different poets: Yeats, Robert Lowell, and Frank O'Hara respectively. In 1981, she changed directions with The Poetics of Indeterminacy, which began her work on avant-gardist poetry, paving the way for The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the Language of Rupture in 1986 and many subsequent titles. Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy, published in 2004, won the Robert Penn Warren Prize in 2005 as well as Honorable Mention for the Robert Motherwell Prize of the Dedalus Foundation.[11]
Perloff did much to promote poetics that are not normally part of the discourse
In 2008–09, she was the Weidenfeld Visiting professor of European Comparative Literature in St Anne's College, Oxford.[14] She was also member of the International Jury of the Janus Pannonius Grand Prize for Poetry Foundation (an award of the Hungarian PEN Club).[15]
Personal life and death
Perloff and her husband, who died in 2014, had two daughters, Carey Perloff and Nancy Perloff.[1]
Perloff died at her home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, on March 24, 2024, at the age of 92.[1]
Bibliography
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Selected works
- Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2016. OL 27210583M.
- ISBN 978-1-324-09243-8
- ISBN 978-1-324-09080-9
- Poetics in a New Key: Interviews and Essays (University of Chicago Press, 2014) ISBN 978-0-226-19941-2 Read an excerpt.
- Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century (University of Chicago Press, 2010) ISBN 978-84-948280-4-1
- Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy (University of Alabama Press, 2004) ISBN 978-0-8173-1421-7
- The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir (New Directions Books, 2004) ISBN 978-0-8112-1571-8
- The ISBN 978-0-226-65738-7
- Poetry On and Off the Page: Essays for Emergent Occasions (Northwestern University Press, 1998) ISBN 978-0-8101-1560-6
- ISBN 978-0-226-66059-2(originally published by Braziller, 1977)
- The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the ISBN 978-0-8101-1380-0
- ISBN 978-0-226-66058-5
- Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media (University of Chicago Press, 1991) ISBN 978-0-226-65733-2
- Poetic License: Studies in the ISBN 978-0-8101-0843-1
Critical studies and reviews of Perloff's work
- Radical artifice
- Golding, Alan (Spring 1994). "Avant-gardes and American poetry". Contemporary Literature. 35 (1): 156–170. JSTOR 1208740.
References
- ^ a b c d e f Risen, Clay (March 26, 2024). "Marjorie Perloff, Leading Scholar of Avant-Garde Poetry, Dies at 92". The New York Times. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
- ^ a b Poetry Foundation Bio
- ^ a b USC Faculty Profile
- ^ a b Alec Wilkinson. Something Borrowed: Kenneth Goldsmith's poetry elevates copying to an art, but did he go too far? The New Yorker, October 5, 2015.
- ^ a b Perloff, Marjorie. Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century. University of Chicago Press. Retrieved March 25, 2024.
- ^ Kirsch, Adam (June 22, 2017). "Ironists of a Vanished Empire". New York Review of Books. 64 (11). Retrieved March 25, 2024.
- ^ Barrosse, Emilia. "In memoriam: Dr. Joseph K. Perloff, founder of congenital heart disease center". UCLA. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
- ^ Thomas, Alan (March 26, 2024). "In Memoriam: Marjorie Perloff (1931–2024)". The Chicago Blog. University of Chicago Press. Retrieved March 31, 2024.
- ISBN 978-3-11-174839-9.
- ^ Entry in Critics encyclopedia
- ^ Faculty Profile From Stanford
- ^ Poetic Profile & Interview Archived July 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lectures in American Literature and History". The British Academy. text
- ^ "Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature". July 10, 2023.
- Janus Pannonius Grand Prize for Poetry. Janus Pannonius Poetry Prize Foundation. Archived from the original(web.archive.org) on September 21, 2023.
External links
- Author Page at EPC
- A response to the literary critic Harold Bloom
- Audio of Marjorie Perloff's lecture "The Aura of Modernism" delivered at the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities on May 19, 2004.
- Review of The Vienna Paradox poet Ron Silliman discusses Perloff's memoir on his blog September 12, 2005
- Three one-hour radio interviews on Robert P. Harrisonabout Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and the Avant-Gardes
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