LEADER 04996nam 2200673 450 001 9910460594203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8853-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000459591 035 $a(EBL)2130651 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001530528 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12621471 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001530528 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11532008 035 $a(PQKB)10751165 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2130651 035 $a(OCoLC)917561306 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42252 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2130651 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11088010 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000459591 100 $a20150824h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe ecology of modernism $eAmerican environments and avant-garde poetics /$fJoshua Schuster 210 1$aTuscaloosa, Alabama :$cThe University Alabama Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 225 1 $aModern and Contemporary Poetics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-5829-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Preface: Conceptualizing Modernism's Ecologies; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Regeneration through Pollution; 1. Fables: On the Morals of Marianne Moore's Animal Monologues; 2. Ambience: How to Read Gertrude Stein's Natures; 3. Blues: Race and Environmental Distress in Early American Blues Music; 4. Traffic: Noise as an Ecological Aesthetic in the Art of John Cage; 5. Contaminated Life: Biopolitics after Rachel Carson; 6. Conclusion; Afterword: Where Is the Oil in Modernism?; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $a"The Ecology of Modernism explores the unexpected absence of an environmental ethic in American modernist and avant-garde poetics, given its keen concern with an environmental aesthetic, and explains why American modernism was never green. Examining the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution, Joshua Schuster posits that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a" In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission. In his opening passage, Schuster boldly invokes lines from Walt Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," which echo as a paean to pollution: "Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall!" Schuster labels this theme "regeneration through pollution" and demonstrates how this motif recurs in modernist compositions. This tolerance for, if not actual exultation of, the by-products of industrialization hindered modernist American artists, writers, and musicians from embracing environmentalist agendas. Schuster provides specific case studies focusing on Marianne Moore and her connection of fables with animal rights; Gertrude Stein and concepts of nature in her avant-garde poetics; early blues music and poetry and the issue of how environmental disasters (floods, droughts, pestilence) affected black farmers and artists in the American South; and John Cage, who extends the modernist avant-garde project formally but critiques it at the same time for failing to engage with ecology. A fascinating afterword about the role of oil in modernist literary production rounds out this work. Schuster masterfully shines a light on the modernist interval between the writings of bucolic and nature-extolling Romantics and the emergence of a self-conscious green movement in the 1960's. This rewarding work shows that the reticence of modernist poets in the face of resource depletion, pollution, animal rights, and other ecological traumas is highly significant"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aModern and contemporary poetics. 606 $aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zUnited States 606 $aEcology in literature 606 $aEnvironmental protection in literature 606 $aLiterature, Experimental$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aEcology in literature. 615 0$aEnvironmental protection in literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Experimental 676 $a811/.509112 700 $aSchuster$b Joshua$01051700 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460594203321 996 $aThe ecology of modernism$92482399 997 $aUNINA