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Record Nr.

UNINA9910985676003321

Autore

Nealon Christopher

Titolo

Infinity for Marxists : Essays on Poetry and Capital

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : BRILL, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9789004536852

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 pages)

Collana

Historical Materialism Book

Disciplina

811/.609

Soggetti

American poetry - History and criticism

Capitalism and literature

Literary criticism

Essays.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgments -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Chapter 1. Camp Messianism, or the Hopes of Poetry in Late-Late Capitalism -- ‎Chapter 2. The Poetic Case -- ‎Chapter 3. Reading on the Left -- ‎Chapter 4. Affect, Performativity, and Actually Existing Poetry -- ‎Chapter 5. Infinity for Marxists -- ‎Chapter 6. The Prynne Reflex -- ‎Chapter 7. The Price of Value -- ‎Chapter 8. The Anti-humanist Tone -- ‎Chapter 9. Modernism, Critical Theory, and the Desire for Objecthood -- ‎Chapter 10. Literary and Economic Value (with Joshua Clover) -- ‎Chapter 11. Abstraction, Intuition, Poetry -- ‎References -- ‎Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"In these innovative essays on poetry and capitalism, collected over the last fifteen years, Christopher Nealon shines a light on the upsurge of anticapitalist poetry since the turn of the century, and developing fresh ways of thinking about how capitalist society shapes the reading and the writing of all poetry, whatever its political orientation. Breaking from half a century of postmodernist readings of poetry, and bypassing the false divide between formalist and historicist criticism, these essays chart a path toward a new Marxist poetics"--