LEADER 04604nam 2200793 450 001 9910822944403321 005 20231206213801.0 010 $a1-4426-8864-5 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442688643 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019312 035 $a(OCoLC)647921116 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10382312 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000478583 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12230808 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478583 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10435002 035 $a(PQKB)10395425 035 $a(CaPaEBR)430819 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00224378 035 $a(DE-B1597)465375 035 $a(OCoLC)1013939023 035 $a(OCoLC)944176627 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442688643 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672638 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258295 035 $a(OCoLC)958514730 035 $a(OCoLC)1353101136 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_106166 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/pknjgf 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672638 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3268523 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019312 100 $a20160923h20082008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aModernist goods $eprimitivism, the market, and the gift /$fGlenn Willmott 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2008. 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (339 p.) 311 $a0-8020-9769-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction. Beyond Primitivism -- Imperialist and Aboriginal Modernities -- Commodities, Gifts, and Goods -- Stoker's Abject Kin -- pt. 1. After Strange Goods: The Economic Unconscious of Imperialist Modernity -- Yeats's Proper Dark -- Lawrence's Profane Work -- Lovecraft's Doubles -- Conrad's Desertions -- Structure and Style -- pt. 2. Multiplying the Public: Abject Modernism and Its Institutions -- pt. 3. Parodic Shaman: Imperialist Modernity and the Blackened Gift -- Eliot's Savage Possessions -- Woolf's Fugitive Rites -- Beckett's Unnamable Magic -- pt. 4. Impure House: Re-imagining Aboriginal Modernity -- Amatory Modernisms -- Joyce's People -- H.D.'s Heritages -- Conclusion: Modernism and Utopia. 330 $aThe politicised interpretation of literature has relied on models of economic and social structures that oscillate between idealized subversion and market fatalism. Current anthropological discussions of mixed gift and commodity economies and the segmented politics of house societies offer solutions to this problem and suggest invaluable new directions for literary studies. Modernist Goods uses recent discussions of gift and house practices to counter an influential revisionist trend in modernist studies, a trend that sees the capitalist marketplace and its public sphere as the uniquely determining institutional structures in modern arts and culture.Glenn Willmott argues that a political unconscious forged by the widespread marginalisation of pre-capitalist institutions comes to the fore in modernist primitivism. Such primitivism, he insists, is not superficially exoticist or simply appropriative of the cultural heritage of others. Rather, it is at once parodic and authentic, and often, in the language of Julia Kristeva, abject. Modernist Goods examines such writers as Yeats, Conrad, Eliot, Woolf, Beckett, H.D., and Joyce to uncover what the author views as their displaced aboriginality and to investigate the relationship between literary modernism and aboriginal modernity. By bringing current anthropological developments to literary studies, it aims to rethink the economic commitments of modernist literature and their political significance. 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aModernism (Literature) 606 $aPrimitivism 606 $aLiterature and anthropology 606 $aCapitalism and literature 606 $aEconomics and literature 606 $aPolitics and literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aPrimitivism. 615 0$aLiterature and anthropology. 615 0$aCapitalism and literature. 615 0$aEconomics and literature. 615 0$aPolitics and literature. 676 $a820.9 700 $aWillmott$b Glenn$f1963-$01642885 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822944403321 996 $aModernist goods$94065415 997 $aUNINA