Inscription and Modernity: From Wordsworth to Mandelstam

Inscription and Modernity charts the vicissitudes of inscriptive poetry produced in the midst of the great and catastrophic political, social, and intellectual upheavals of the late 18th to mid 20th centuries. Drawing on the ideas of Geoffrey Hartman, Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson, and Jacques Ranci re among others, John MacKay shows how a wide range of Romantic and post-Romantic poets (including Wordsworth, Clare, Shelley, H lderlin, Lamartine, Baudelaire, Blok, Khlebnikov, Mandelstam, and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann) employ the generic resources of inscription both to justify their writing and to attract a readership, during a complex historical phase when the rationale for poetry and the identity of audiences were matters of intense yet productive doubt.

Author: John Kenneth MacKay
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 09/19/2006
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.44w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780253347497

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.9
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 160824 / Vietnam War: 1954-1975

About the Author

John MacKay is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.