Epic Negation by Cd Blanton
This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. 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Pound's "poem including history" to conceive a negated mode of epic, predicated on the encryption of disarticulated historical content.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, Elio-
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Blasphemous Modernism
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Culture Writing
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Without Copyrights
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Americanizing Britain
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The Poetry of the Americas
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Consuming Traditions
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The Art of Scandal
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Modernism and Copyright
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Accented America
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Modernism's Mythic Pose
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Digital Modernism
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Commonwealth of Letters
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Pragmatic Modernism
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In a Strange Room
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The Degenerate Muse
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Modernism and the New Spain
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Modernism and Melancholia
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At the Violet Hour
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Out of Context
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In and Out of Sight
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Modernist Informatics
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World Views
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Unseasonable Youth
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Fictions of Autonomy
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The Great American Songbooks
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The Modernist Art of Queer Survival
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Machine-Age Comedy
ambitious, scholarly.. Highly recommended. * B. Wallenstein, CHOICE *
Epic Negation represents a powerful, theoretically sophisticated, and cohesive account of twenty-five crucial years of twentieth-century British literary history, while offering a framework for a number of subtle new readings of key works from the end of World War I to the end of World War II. Along the way, C. D. Blanton engages in an impressive sweep of more localized literary historical investigations and theoretical reflections. * Tyrus Miller, author of Modernism and the Frankfurt School *
Intricately studying allusion and intergeneric relations in late modernism, C. D. Blanton's capacious and deeply thoughtful Epic Negation traces how extrinsic voices, historical forces, and forms snake their way into even seemingly closed poems. With its fusion of sinuous close readings and lively theoretical analysis, Blanton's book makes a serious contribution to twentieth-century poetry studies. * Jahan Ramazani, author of Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres *
C. D. Blanton revives the intractable subject of modern epic poetry by reminding us that thinkers and poets as divergent as Pound and Lukacs were once engaged in a common dialectical project. In doing so, he puts back into circulation questions that sustained the feverish modernist debate about totality (and totalitarianism)-questions that may now help us understand poetry's possible relation to new forms of globalism. * Daniel Tiffany, author of My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch *
Epic Negation represents a powerful, theoretically sophisticated, and cohesive account of twenty-five crucial years of twentieth-century British literary history, while offering a framework for a number of subtle new readings of key works from the end of World War I to the end of World War II. Along the way, C. D. Blanton engages in an impressive sweep of more localized literary historical investigations and theoretical reflections. * Tyrus Miller, author of Modernism and the Frankfurt School *
Intricately studying allusion and intergeneric relations in late modernism, C. D. Blanton's capacious and deeply thoughtful Epic Negation traces how extrinsic voices, historical forces, and forms snake their way into even seemingly closed poems. With its fusion of sinuous close readings and lively theoretical analysis, Blanton's book makes a serious contribution to twentieth-century poetry studies. * Jahan Ramazani, author of Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres *
C. D. Blanton revives the intractable subject of modern epic poetry by reminding us that thinkers and poets as divergent as Pound and Lukacs were once engaged in a common dialectical project. In doing so, he puts back into circulation questions that sustained the feverish modernist debate about totality (and totalitarianism)-questions that may now help us understand poetry's possible relation to new forms of globalism. * Daniel Tiffany, author of My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch *
Blanton is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley. He is coeditor of A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry (Blackwell, 2009).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199844715 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199844712 |
| Title | Epic Negation |
| Author | Cd Blanton |
| Series | Modernist Literature And Culture |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2015-05-14 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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