Inscription and modernity : from Wordsworth to Mandelstam / John MacKay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacKay, John Kenneth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

European poetry.

European poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

Lyric poetry--History and criticism.

Lyric poetry.

Inscriptions.

Physical Description:

x, 303 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006]

Summary:

Inscription and Modernity charts the vicissitudes of inscriptive poetryproduced in the midst of the great and catastrophic political, social, andintellectual upheavals of the late 18th to mid 20th centuries. Drawing on the ideasof Geoffrey Hartman, Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson, and Jacques Ranci re amongothers, 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 ofinscription both to justify their writing and to attract a readership, during acomplex historical phase when the rationale for poetry and the identity of audienceswere matters of intense yet productive doubt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-295) and index.

ISBN:

0253347491

OCLC:

64208298

Publisher Number:

9780253347497