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Inscription and modernity : from Wordsworth to Mandelstam

By MacKay , John Kenneth

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0-253-34749-1, 9780253347497, 9780253112033, 0253112036, 9781282072855, 1282072854, 33-2006-809-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1897013 bytes)
Pages
303\318
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
European poetry -- 20th century -- History and cri

Description

Inscription and Modernity charts the vicissitudes of inscriptive poetry produced in the midst of the great and catastrophic political, social, and intellectual upheavals of the late 18th to mid 20th centuries. Drawing on the ideas of Geoffrey Hartman, Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson, and Jacques Rancière among others, John MacKay shows how a wide range of Romantic and post-Romantic poets (including Wordsworth, Clare, Shelley, Hölderlin, Lamartine, Baudelaire, Blok, Khlebnikov, Mandelstam, and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann) employ the generic resources of inscription both to justify their writing and to attract a readership, during a complex historical phase when the rationale for poetry and the identity of audiences were matters of intense yet productive doubt.

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