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This study of 20th-century American poet George Oppen promises to become a key resource for those interested not only in Oppen himself, but in the history of literary modernism. Drawing extensively on largely unpublished papers and presenting material that has not yet appeared in print, Peter Nicholls gives a detailed account of Oppen's life and work, enriched by close readings of many of his poems.

Modernism (Literature) --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Oppen, George --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Modernism (Literature). --- Criticism and interpretation

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Scholars and students of modernism will find much to discuss in Jennison's theoretical study.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Modernism (Literature) --- American poetry --- History --- History and criticism. --- Niedecker, Lorine --- Oppen, George --- Zukofsky, Louis, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- History and criticism --- E-books

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American poetry --- Modernism (Literature) --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- United States --- Pound, Ezra Loomis --- Criticism and interpretation --- Williams, William Carlos --- Eliot, George --- Loy, Mina --- Moore, Marianne --- Oppen, George --- Hughes, Langston --- Stevens, Wallace --- Auden, Wystan Hugh

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The beginning is both internal and external to the text it initiates, and that noncoincidence points to the text’s vexed relation with its outside. Hence the nontrivial self-reflexivity of any textual beginning, which must bear witness to the self-grounding quality of the literary work— its inability either to comprise its inception or to externalize it in an authorizing exteriority. In a different but related way, the fact that they must begin renders our lives and our desires opaque to us; what Freud called “latency” marks not only sexuality but human thought with a self-division shaped by asynchronicity.From Henry James’s New York Edition prefaces to George Eliot’s epigraphs, from Ovid’s play with meter to Charles Dickens’s thematizing of the ex nihilo emergence of character, from Wallace Stevens’s abstract consideration of poetic origins to James Baldwin’s, Carson McCullers’s, and Eudora Welty’s descriptions of queer childhood, writers repeatedly confront the problem of inception. Inception introduces a fundamental contingency into texts and psyches alike: in the beginning, all could have been otherwise.For Kevin Ohi, the act of inception, and the potential it embodies, enables us to see making and unmaking coincide within the mechanism of creation. In this sense, Inceptions traces an ethics of reading, the possibility of perceiving, in the ostensibly finished forms of lives and texts, the potentiality inherent in their having started forth.

American literature --- English literature --- Openings (Rhetoric). --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. --- Baldwin, James. --- Beginnings. --- Defoe, Daniel. --- Dickens, Charles. --- Eliot, George. --- Friedrich, Su. --- James, Henry. --- McCullers, Carson. --- Milton, John. --- Oppen, George. --- Ovid. --- Shakespeare, William. --- Stevens, Wallace. --- Welty, Eudora. --- Wordsworth, William. --- beginnings. --- birth. --- contingency. --- literary form. --- origins. --- potentiality. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Baldwin, James. --- Beginnings. --- Defoe, Daniel. --- Dickens, Charles. --- Eliot, George. --- Friedrich, Su. --- James, Henry. --- McCullers, Carson. --- Milton, John. --- Oppen, George. --- Ovid. --- Shakespeare, William. --- Stevens, Wallace. --- Welty, Eudora. --- Wordsworth, William. --- beginnings. --- birth. --- contingency. --- literary form. --- origins. --- potentiality.

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American poetry --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- 19th century --- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth --- Criticism and interpretation --- Robinson, Edwin Arlington --- Bibliography --- Frost, Robert Lee --- Lowell, Amy Lawrence --- H.D. --- Stein, Gertrude --- Moore, Marianne --- Eliot, Thomas Stearns --- Pound, Ezra Loomis --- Stevens, Wallace --- Williams, William Carlos --- Crane, Harold Hart --- Cummings, Edward Estlin --- Jeffers, Robinson --- Crane, Stephen --- Moody, William Vaughn --- Niedecker, Lorine --- Oppen, George --- Warren, Robert Penn --- Zukofsky, Louis