Poetry of the possible : spontaneity, modernism, and the multitude / Joel Nickels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nickels, Joel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American poetry.

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

English poetry.

Spontaneity (Philosophy) in literature.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Literature)--England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Poetry of the Possible challenges the conventional image of modernism as a socially phobic formation, arguing that modernism's abstractions and difficulties are ways of imagining unrealized powers of collective self-organization. Establishing a conceptual continuum between modernism and contemporary theorists such as Paulo Virno, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, and Alain Badiou, Joel Nickels rediscovers modernism's attempts to document the creative potenza of the multitude. By examining scenes of collective life in works by William Carlos Williams, Wyndham Lewis, Laura Riding, and Wallace St

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modernism and Spontaneous Organization; 1 Rising from Nowhere: Self-Valorization in William Carlos Williams's Poetry; 2 Wyndham Lewis, Constituent Power, and Collective Life; 3 "An Instantaneous Sympathy of Communication": Laura Riding and the Politics of Spontaneity; 4 Rhapsodies of Change: The Location of the Multitude in Wallace Stevens's Poetry; Conclusion: Beginning Again; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4771-6

0-8166-8032-9

OCLC:

811507047