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Inscription and Modernity: From Wordsworth to Mandelstam

Inscription and Modernity: From Wordsworth to Mandelstam

MacKay, John Kenneth

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0253347491
ISBN13: 9780253347497
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: Sep 19 2006
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.58
Language: English

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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