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Inscription and Modernity: From Wordsworth to Mandelstam
Contributor(s): MacKay, John Kenneth (Author)
ISBN: 0253347491     ISBN-13: 9780253347497
Publisher: Indiana University Press
OUR PRICE:   $28.50  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: September 2006
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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.

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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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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.