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Infinity for Marxists
Essays on Poetry and Capital
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2023
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About this book
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 develops 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.
Author / Editor information
Christopher Nealon is John Dewey Professor in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall (2001) and The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century (2011), and the co-editor, with Colleen Lye, of After Marx: Literature, Theory and Value in the Twenty-First Century (2022).
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eBook published on:
January 16, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9789004536852
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Main content:
266
eBook ISBN:
9789004536852
Audience(s) for this book
Advanced undergraduates, PhD students, faculty in literary studies
