Inscription and modernity : from Wordsworth to Mandelstam

✍ Scribed by MacKay, John Kenneth

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 318
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Inscription and Modernity charts the vicissitudes of inscriptive poetry produced in the midst of the great and catastrophic political, social, and intellectual upheavals of the late 18th to mid 20th centuries. Drawing on the ideas of Geoffrey Hartman, Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson, and Jacques Rancière among others, John MacKay shows how a wide range of Romantic and post-Romantic poets (including Wordsworth, Clare, Shelley, Hölderlin, Lamartine, Baudelaire, Blok, Khlebnikov, Mandelstam, and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann) employ the generic resources of inscription both to justify their writing and to attract a readership, during a complex historical phase when the rationale for poetry and the identity of audiences were matters of intense yet productive doubt.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction: Inscription and Modernity --
1. Lifeless Things: Being and Structure in Romantic Inscription --
2. Empty and Full: Poetry, Self, and Society in Lamartine, Baudelaire, and Poncy --
3. Kernels of the Acropolis: Poetry and Modernization in Blok, Kliuev, and Khlebnikov --
4. Unkind Weight: Mandelstam, History, and Catastrophe --
Conclusion --
Coda: In Descending Sizes --
Notes --
Works Cited and Consulted --
Index.

✦ Subjects

European poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism. European poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Lyric poetry -- History and criticism. Inscriptions. TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. European poetry. Lyric poetry. Lyriek. Inscripties. Historische moti