Epic Negation

C. D. Blanton revives the intractable subject of modern epic poetry by reminding us that thinkers and poets as divergent as Pound and Lukacs were once engaged in a common dialectical project. In doing so, he puts back into circulation questions that sustained the feverish modernist debate about totality (and totalitarianism)-questions that may now help us understand poetry's possible relation to new forms of globalism. Informationen zum Autor Blanton is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley. He is coeditor of A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry (Blackwell, 2009). Klappentext Epic Negation examines the dialectical turn of modernist poetry over the interwar period, arguing that late modernism inverts the method of Ezra Pound's poem including history to conceive a negated mode of epic, predicated on the encryption of disarticulated historical content. Zusammenfassung Epic Negation examines the dialectical turn of modernist poetry over the interwar period, arguing that late modernism inverts the method of Ezra Pound's "poem including history" to conceive a negated mode of epic, predicated on the encryption of disarticulated historical content. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I; The Dialectical Poetics of Late Modernism; Dialectical Poetics; An Organ of Documentation: Eliot and Order; Date Line: Including History; Eliotic Marxism: Notes Toward a Dialectic of Culture; Part II; A poem is not poetry; Auden's Monadology; MacNeice's Dying Fall; H.D.'s Incidents; Notes; Index

Autorentext

Blanton is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley. He is coeditor of A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry (Blackwell, 2009).

Klappentext

Epic Negation examines the dialectical turn of modernist poetry over the interwar period, arguing that late modernism inverts the method of Ezra Pound's poem including history to conceive a negated mode of epic, predicated on the encryption of disarticulated historical content.

Inhalt

• Part I

• The Dialectical Poetics of Late Modernism

• Dialectical Poetics

• An Organ of Documentation: Eliot and Order

• Date Line: Including History

• Eliotic Marxism: Notes Toward a Dialectic of Culture

• Part II

• A poem is not poetry

• Auden's Monadology

• MacNeice's Dying Fall

• H.D.'s Incidents

• Notes

• Index