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1 online resource (224 pages). |
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Hopkins studies in modernism
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Hopkins studies in modernism.
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Zukofsky: the political economy of revolutionary modernism -- Oppen: cinematic capitalism -- Zukofsky: the voice of the fetish -- Niedecker: the interior voice, commodified -- Zukofsky: counterfetishistic literacy. |
| Summary |
"Inaugurated in 1932 by Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poetry gave expression to the complex contours of culture and politics in America during the Great Depression. This study of Zukofsky and two others in the Objectivist constellation, George Oppen and Lorine Niedecker, elaborates the dialectic between the formal experimental features of their poetry and their progressive commitments to the radical potentials of modernity. Mixing textual analysis, archival research, and historiography, Ruth Jennison shows how Zukofsky, Oppen, and Niedecker braided their experiences as working-class Jews, political activists, and feminists into radical, canon-challenging poetic forms. Using the tools of critical geography, Jennison offers an account of the relationship between the uneven spatial landscapes of capitalism in crisis and the Objectivists' paratactical textscapes. In a rethinking of the overall terms in which poetic modernism is described, she identifies and assesses the key characteristics of the Objectivist avant-garde, including its formal recognition of proliferating commodity cultures, its solidarity with global anticapitalist movements, and its imperative to develop poetics that nurtured revolutionary literacy. The resulting narrative is a historically sensitive, thorough, and innovative account of Objectivism's Depression-era modernism. A rich analysis of American avant-garde poetic forms and politics, The Zukofsky Era convincingly situates Objectivist poetry as a politically radical movement comprising a crucial chapter in American literary history. Scholars and students of modernism especially will find much to discuss in Jennison's theoretical study."--Project Muse. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Niedecker, Lorine -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Niedecker, Lorine. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Oppen, George -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Oppen, George. |
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Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Niedecker, Lorine. |
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Oppen, George. |
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Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978. |
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Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978. |
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) |
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United States. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American poetry. |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jennison, Ruth. Zukofsky era. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012 9781421405292 1421405296 (DLC) 2011042882 |
| ISBN |
9781421406114 (electronic book) |
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142140611X (electronic book) |
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9781421405292 |
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1421405296 |
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