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RUNNING HEAD : Critique of Gelpi 's The Geneology of Postmodernism

Critique of Gelpi 's The Geneology of Postmodernism : Contemporary American Poetry

Gelpi 's (1990 ) article , The Geneology of Postmodernism : Contemporary American Poetry ' is written for seasoned lovers of American literature Although the author describes the different characteristics of postmodernist poetry by naming various poets and quoting parts of their works , not every reader in the world is expected to know the poets and phrases picked by the author . As another example of the difficulties readers may experience in reading Gelpi 's

article , he quotes the poet Stevens , twice in a sentence in the first part of his article without mentioning the poem or work where the quotations have been found (Gelpi . Clearly , plagiarism is not the intent of the author . Rather he expects all his readers to be informed of the first name of Stevens and the poet 's important works - enough to know where the quotes were picked from

Of a certainty , the above mentioned problems with Gelpi 's article should be described as distractions , even though the author does a marvelous job explaining postmodernist features of the poems he writes about . If he had chosen to write about a single poem , however , his article would have been easier to read - not only by seasoned lovers of literature but also students . For this reason , those that are new to reading postmodernist features in poetry would find that Hongladoram 's article is certainly easier to understand . Although Hongladoram does not...