“THE CASE OF THE MISSING PLUMS”
“THE CASE OF THE MISSING PLUMS”

Summary/Abstract: From William Carlos Williamsř 1934 ŖThis Is Just to Sayŗ to Florence Williamsř ŖReplyŗŕthis is the Ŗinvestigativeŗ journey here, where travelling between high modernist poetry and the parodies that followed over the decades seems to have marked a certain evolution in American poetry. If parody may have appeared as a result of an exhaustion in the potentialities of the genre, then modernism and post-modernism may have also witnessed the exhaustion of parody itself; the now long announced end or death of literature cannot mean its alternative existence only as parody (though a form of literature itself).

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