Infinity for Marxists : essays on poetry and capital / Christopher Nealon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nealon, Christopher S. (Christopher Shaun), 1967- author.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; Volume 281.

Historical Materialism Book Series ; Volume 281

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Capitalism and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"In these innovative essays on poetry and capitalism, collected over the last fifteen years, Christopher Nealon shines a light on the upsurge of anticapitalist poetry since the turn of the century, and developing fresh ways of thinking about how capitalist society shapes the reading and the writing of all poetry, whatever its political orientation. Breaking from half a century of postmodernist readings of poetry, and bypassing the false divide between formalist and historicist criticism, these essays chart a path toward a new Marxist poetics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

‎Contents

‎Acknowledgments

‎Introduction

‎Chapter 1. Camp Messianism, or the Hopes of Poetry in Late-Late Capitalism

‎Chapter 2. The Poetic Case

‎Chapter 3. Reading on the Left

‎Chapter 4. Affect, Performativity, and Actually Existing Poetry

‎Chapter 5. Infinity for Marxists

‎Chapter 6. The Prynne Reflex

‎Chapter 7. The Price of Value

‎Chapter 8. The Anti-humanist Tone

‎Chapter 9. Modernism, Critical Theory, and the Desire for Objecthood

‎Chapter 10. Literary and Economic Value (with Joshua Clover)

‎Chapter 11. Abstraction, Intuition, Poetry

‎References

‎Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Nealon, Christopher Infinity for Marxists

ISBN:

9789004536852

OCLC:

1492923459