{"product_id":"poetry-and-the-limits-of-modernity-in-depression-america-hardback-9781009347839","title":"Poetry and the Limits of Modernity in Depression America (Hardback) 9781009347839","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePoetry and the Limits of Modernity in Depression America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book gives readers a fresh take on Depression-era poetry in relation to the idea of modernity experienced as crisis.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJustin Parks (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009347839, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 October 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e238 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2.1 cm, 0.51 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The highly detailed and illuminating close readings represent one of the book's many strengths: to reconceive the role of close reading as a crucial component of holistic, interdisciplinary claims.' Ruth Jennison, American Literary History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFurnishing a novel take on the poetry of the 1930s within the context of the cultural history of the Depression, this book argues that the period's economic and cultural crisis was accompanied by an epistemological crisis in which cultural producers increasingly cast doubt on language in its ability to represent society. Poetry and the Limits of Modernity in Depression America pursues this guiding premise through six chapters, each framing the problem of the ongoing vitality of language as a social medium with respect to a particular poet: Louis Zukofsky and the commodification of language; Muriel Rukeyser and documentary photography; Charles Reznikoff and Depression-era historiography; Sterling A. Brown and the blues as both an ethnographic phenomenon and a marketable cultural product; Norman Macleod and Southwest regionalism; and Lorine Niedecker and ethnographic surrealism. The book closes by examining the shifting status of the poet as society transitioned from a focus on production to an emphasis on consumption in the Post-war period.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Poetry, Modernity, Crisis\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Historical Materialism and the Materials of History: 1. Thinking with Things: Language, Commodities, and the Social Ontologies of Objects in Louis Zukofsky's 'A'-8 and 9\u003cbr\u003e 2. New Ways of Seeing: Muriel Rukeyser's 'Book of the Dead' and the Politics of Documentary Photography\u003cbr\u003e 3. Pieces of the Body Torn out by the Roots: Charles Reznikoff's 1934 Testimony and the Idiom of American Violence\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Ethnographic Modernity and Its Discontents: 4. Vernacular Technologies: The Folksong Collector, the Phonograph, and Blues Authenticity in Sterling A. Brown's Southern Road\u003cbr\u003e 5. Interlopers out of a Pale Land: Norman Macleod's Ethnographic Regionalism and Antimodernism in New Mexico\u003cbr\u003e 6. Object Lessons: Ethnographic Surrealism and the Poetics of Detachment in Lorine Niedecker's New Goose\u003cbr\u003e Coda: The Poet as Consumer.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52413989126424,"sku":"9781009347839","price":73.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009347839i.jpg?v=1784334076","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/poetry-and-the-limits-of-modernity-in-depression-america-hardback-9781009347839","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}