Justin Parks (University of Tromso)

Poetry and the Limits of Modernity in Depression America

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Produktbeschreibung

Furnishing a novel take on the poetry of the 1930s within the context of the cultural history of the Depression, this book argues that the period's economic and cultural crisis was accompanied by an epistemological crisis in which cultural producers increasingly cast doubt on language in its ability to represent society.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781009347839
• ISBN-10: 1009347837
• Artikelnr.: 67675569

Autorenporträt

Justin Parks is Associate Professor at the Institute for Language and Culture at UiT-The Arctic University of Norway. His work is rooted in modern and contemporary poetry and American studies, with particular interest in Depression-era culture. His recent work engages with energy humanities: he has edited a special of Textual Practice on 'writing extractivism.'

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Poetry, Modernity, Crisis; Part I. Historical Materialism and
the Materials of History: 1. Thinking with Things: Language, Commodities,
and the Social Ontologies of Objects in Louis Zukofsky's 'A'-8 and 9; 2.
New Ways of Seeing: Muriel Rukeyser's 'Book of the Dead' and the Politics
of Documentary Photography; 3. Pieces of the Body Torn out by the Roots:
Charles Reznikoff's 1934 Testimony and the Idiom of American Violence; Part
II. Ethnographic Modernity and Its Discontents: 4. Vernacular Technologies:
The Folksong Collector, the Phonograph, and Blues Authenticity in Sterling
A. Brown's Southern Road; 5. Interlopers out of a Pale Land: Norman
Macleod's Ethnographic Regionalism and Antimodernism in New Mexico; 6.
Object Lessons: Ethnographic Surrealism and the Poetics of Detachment in
Lorine Niedecker's New Goose; Coda: The Poet as Consumer.