By adopting a historical perspective on Western reading philosophies and a geographical perspective on literature's linguistic and cultural margins, Pluralism, Poetry, and Literacy aims to develop an understanding of the crucial role of literature in shaping methodologies of interpretation.

Xavier Kalck is an associate professor at Sorbonne University (Paris, France). He is the author of several books on twentieth-century poetry in English (Muted Strings: Louis MacNeice's The Burning Perch, 2015; George Oppen's Poetics of the Commonplace, 2017) and in French ("We said Objectivitst": Lire les poètes Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, Charles Reznikoff, Louis Zukofsky, 2019; La poésie américaine entre chant et parole: l'héritage objectiviste, 2020), as well as many articles on poetics.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

CHAPTER 1. THE MEDITATIVE READER.

CHAPTER 2. THE ANALYTIC READER.

CHAPTER 3. THE DIASPORIC READER.

CHAPTER 4. THE ECOLOGICAL READER.

Conclusion

Index