Notes on Lyn Hejinian's Allegorical Moments (2023)
1. Frederic Jameson on ideology
2. Negotiating contexts
3. Hejinian on everyday life
4. Hejinian's radical allegory
5. Hejinian on meaning and its "discontinuity"
6. Hejinian's "digressive mode"
7. Angus Fletcher's critique of allegory
8. More on kairos
9. Jameson's "modern allegory"
10. The dialectical image and the thwarted utopia
11. Benjamin's "On the Theory of Knowledge, Theory of Progress"
12. Ernst Bloch on utopia
13. Putting it all in vs leaving it all out
14. Works of "capacious inclusivity"
15. Barrett Watten's "Mode Z"
16. Charles Altieri on "the sense of a whole"
17. Accumulations of unrelated stuff
18. Lyn Hejinian on the imagination
19. The "contextualizing charge" of things
20. Hejinian on the "reality effects" of time
21. Kairos and rhetoric
22. Kairos and memory
23. Chronos and kairos
24. Relationships and events in Stein
25. The good person and the good life
26. 1883: Nationally applicable time standards
27. "Composition as Explanation"
28. Everyday life and chance
29. Stein's typologies
30. "There is no repetition"
31. Adorno's "non-identity"
32. "Nonredundant reiteration" in Stein
33. Curation and editorial work (in poetry)
34. THIS journal
35. The "phenomenal totality"
36. Woolf on rhythm
37. The Presocratic enterprise
38. Margaret Cavendish, sociability and inquiry
39. Cavendish, Woolf, and vitality
40. "Suffusions of context"
41. Oppen and "the clearing"
42. Opinions founded on facts are errors
43. Heidegger and boredom
44. Neutral eighteenth-century prose
45. The "Imagist program"
46. Louis Zukofsky's "An Objective"
47. Oppen and "the substantive"
48. C. S. Peirce on time
49. Lyn Hejinian on adolescence
50. Sartre on reality
51. Oppen's "contingency"
52. Oppen's daybooks
53. The "mineral fact"
54. The aesthetic response to the mineral fact
55. More on Zukofsky's "sincerity"
56. Subjectivity in "My Life"
57. Subjectivity is allegorical
58. "The excluded are within"
59. America and the other
60. The cultural presence of nationalism
61. Change, in Leslie Scalapino
62. The pleasure of seeing and the phenomenal field
63. Civilization and "the landscape"
64. Hejinian on "existing"
65. "True existence" vs "conventional existence"
66. Works of despair (and hope)
67. Suffering in Scalapino
68. "Continual conceptual rebellion"
69. The word "as"
70. Systems, networks, coherence, unity
71. Mistakes of knowledge
72. Camus' abyss
73. "To live means to leave traces"
74. Hypersignification / oversignification
75. Allegory and meaning
76. Hejinian on our current crises
77. Poetry and the social
78. David Buukck & Juliana Spahr's "Army of Lovers"
79. Lyrical confession vs formal complexity
80. Signifying and information
81. Fragmented units and syntactic turbulence
82. "Indexicality"
83. The hypertextual poem
84. Poems as "invitation to subjectivity"
85. Poetry as "privacy overheard"
86. Not rhythm but thought
87. Language, incipience, and subjectivity
88. Art vs seriousness
89. Language and public life
90. "Affect"
91. Hejinian on happiness
92. Watten's "radical particularity"
93. "The device in the rug"
94. Morton Feldman's "Crippled Symmetry"
95. Hejinian on Watten
96. The artist and the "extinction of personality"
97. Fascist history
98. "This"
99. Poetics Journal
100. T. S. Eliot's "The Criterion"
101. Hejinian on the zeitgeist
102. "Wild captioning"
103. Art, the microcosmic, and the macrocosmic
104. de Certeau's "everyday life" thought experiment
105. Relations between moments
106. Reconfiguring spatial resources
107. Barrett Watten's "Under Erasure"

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