Inscription and Modernity: From Wordsworth to Mandelstam

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Indiana University Press, 2006 M09 19 - 320 páginas

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 Rancià ̈re 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.

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Inscription and Modernity
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Being and Structure in Romantic Inscription
39
Poetry Self and Society in Lamartine Baudelaire and Poncy
94
Poetry and Modernization in Blok Kliuev and Khlebnikov
140
Mandelstam History and Catastrophe
170
Conclusion
201
In Descending Sizes
229
Notes
233
Works Cited and Consulted
281
Index
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John MacKay is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.

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