Epic negation : the dialectical poetics of late modernism

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Epic negation : the dialectical poetics of late modernism

Title remainder

the dialectical poetics of late modernism

Statement of responsibility

C.D. Blanton

Creator

• Blanton, C. D., (Charles Daniel), 1968-

Author

• Blanton, C. D., (Charles Daniel), 1968-

Subject

• Epic poetry, American -- History and criticism
• Epic poetry, English -- History and criticism
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Modernism (Literature)
• POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• POETRY / General
• Poetics
• Poetry -- Explication
• Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
• English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Theory, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Epic Negation examines the dialectical turn of modernist poetry over the interwar period, arguing that late modernism inverts the method of Ezra Pound's "poem including history" to conceive a negated mode of epic, predicated on the encryption of disarticulated historical content. Compelled to register the force of a totality it cannot represent, this negated epic reorients the function of poetic language and reference, remaking the poem, and late modernism generally, as a critical instrument of dialectical reason. Part I reads The Waste Land alongside the review it prefaced, The Criterion, arguing that the poem establishes the editorial method with which T. S. Eliot constructs the review's totalizing account of culture. Dividing the epic's critical function from its style, Eliot not only includes history differently, but also formulates an intricately dialectical account of the interwar crisis of bourgeois culture, formed in the image of a Marxian critique it opposes. Part II turns to the second war's onset, tracing the dislocated formal effects of an epic gone underground. In the elegies and pastorals of W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, lyric forms divulge the determining force of unmentionable but universal events, dividing experience against consciousness. With H.D.'s war trilogy, produced in a terse exchange with Freud's Moses, even the poetic image lapses, associating epic with the silent historical force of the unconscious as such"--

Member of

• Modernist literature & culture

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

811/.509112

Index

index present

LC call number

PS310.M57

LC item number

B57 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Modernist literature & culture