Perloff, Marjorie (Gabrielle)

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PERLOFF, Marjorie (Gabrielle)

PERLOFF, Marjorie (Gabrielle). American (born Austria), b. 1931. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., instructor to associate professor, 1965-71; University of Maryland, College Park, associate professor to professor, 1971- 76; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Florence R. Scott Professor, 1976-86; Stanford University, CA, professor of English and comparative literature, 1986-90, Sadie Denham Patek Professor of Humanities, 1990- 2000, emerita, 2001-. Publications: Rhyme and Meaning in the Poetry of Yeats, 1970; The Poetic Art of Robert Lowell, 1973; Frank O'Hara: Poet among Painters, 1977; The Poetics of Indeterminary: Rimbaud to Cage, 1981; The Dance of Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition, 1985; The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, 1986; (assoc. ed.) Columbia Literary History of the U.S., 1988; (ed.) Postmodern Genres, 1988; Poetic License: Studies in Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric, 1990; Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media, 1992; Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary; Party on & off the Page, 1998; 21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetry?, 2001. Address: 1467 Amalfi Dr, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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