Lyric Noise: Lisa Robertson, Claudia Rankine, and the Phatic Subject of Poetry in the Mass Public Sphere.
This essay takes the image of the noise-filled television screen that appears as a visual refrain in Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely as the starting point for a discussion of phatic language in her work and in the work of the poet Lisa Robertson. Phatic expressions are signifying acts that...
| Published in: | Criticism Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 97 - 132 |
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Wayne State University Press
Winter2019
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