Overview
- Applies continental philosophy to Modernist poetry
- Considers modernity under a variety of lenses including literary theory, critical theory, psychoanalysis, and philosophy
- Advances scholarship on poetry and poetics and key Modernist poets
Part of the book series: Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination (PSGALI)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
Badiou and American Modernist Poetics explores the correspondence between Alain Badiou's thinking on art and that of the canonical modernists T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the text engages with themes of the void, mastery, and place present in both modernist poetry and in Badiou’s philosophy. Through an examination of classic modernist texts, Cameron MacKenzie reveals that where Badiou hopes to go, the modernists have already been.
Reviews
“Cameron MacKenzie makes a strong and convincing case for Alain Badiou's relevance to the project of understanding modernism as something other than a monolithic aesthetic creed. In particular, MacKenzie provides insight into the way that modernist artdraws us towards the void without capitulating to any absolutist voiding of human value. This monograph is a very promising point of departure for anyone interested in acquiring a grasp of modernist poetics that is not already in the grip of pious “truths” about the autonomy of the text. Here we are asked to see beyond the edifice of language to the evolving worlds that are portended therein.” (Alan Singer, Professor of English, Temple University, USA, and author of Posing Sex: Toward a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Art, 2018)
“Cameron MacKenzie, connecting canonical modernist poetry and poetics—the work of Eliot, Stevens, and Pound—with Alain Badiou’s latter-day philosophical writing, reveals the surprising continuity that subtends a century of meditations on aesthetics and Being. Students and seasoned scholars alike will find Mackenzie’s book a bracing contribution to current literary criticism.” (Robert L. Caserio, Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Cameron MacKenzie is Adjunct Professor of English at Ferrum College, USA. His work has appeared in SubStance, symplokē, and The Cormac McCarthy Journal, and his essays have been collected in The Waste Land at 90: A Retrospective (2011) and Edward P. Jones: New Essays (2011).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Badiou and American Modernist Poetics
Authors: Cameron MacKenzie
Series Title: Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95028-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95027-3Published: 13 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95028-0Published: 27 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-4072
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 88
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Modern Philosophy