Inscription and Modernity

Informationen zum Autor John MacKay is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. This work shows how Romantic and post-Romantic poets employ the generic resources of inscription both to justify their writing and to attract a readership. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Inscription and Modernity 1. Lifeless Things: Being and Structure in Romantic Inscription 2. Empty and Full: Poetry, Self, and Society in Lamartine, Baudelaire, and Poncy 3. Kernels of the Acropolis: Poetry and Modernization in Blok, Kliuev, and Khlebnikov 4. Unkind Weight: Mandelstam, History, and Catastrophe Conclusion Coda: In Descending Sizes Notes Works Cited and Consulted Index

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
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. This work shows how Romantic and post-Romantic poets employ the generic resources of inscription both to justify their writing and to attract a readership.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Inscription and Modernity

1. Lifeless Things: Being and Structure in Romantic Inscription
2. Empty and Full: Poetry, Self, and Society in Lamartine, Baudelaire, and Poncy
3. Kernels of the Acropolis: Poetry and Modernization in Blok, Kliuev, and Khlebnikov
4. Unkind Weight: Mandelstam, History, and Catastrophe
   Conclusion
   Coda: In Descending Sizes
   Notes
   Works Cited and Consulted
   Index