Inscription and Modernity: From Wordsworth to Mandelstam Contributor(s): MacKay, John Kenneth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253347491 ISBN-13: 9780253347497 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2006 Annotation: 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 RanciA]re among others, John MacKay shows how a wide range of Romantic and post-Romantic poets (including Wordsworth, Clare, Shelley, HAlderlin, 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | European - General |
Dewey: 809.103 |
LCCN: 2006005253 |
Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.44" W x 9.58" (1.33 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 160824 Reading Level: 7.9 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 2.0 |
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Publisher 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 Ranci re among others, John MacKay shows how a wide range of Romantic and post-Romantic poets (including Wordsworth, Clare, Shelley, H lderlin, 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. |