Stitch, Unstitch : Modernist Poetry and the World of Work.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grogan, Kristin.

Series:

Modernist Latitudes Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor in literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2025.

Summary:

In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan argues that modernist poetry was deeply shaped by ordinary labor and the people who performed it. This relationship provoked powerful political and aesthetic experiments--and allowed modernist poets to imagine ways of life beyond the demand to earn a living.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FIGURES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter One EZRA POUNDS WORK ETHIC

Chapter Two THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SEWING

Chapter Three LANGSTON HUGHESS CONSTRUCTIVIST POETICS

Chapter Four REPRODUCING GERTRUDE STEIN

Chapter Five LORINE NIEDECKER AND THE WORK OF RESTRAINT

CODA Drafting Modernism

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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ISBN:

0-231-56282-9

OCLC:

1528955890