My Silver Planet - A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch

By exposing and elaborating the historical poetics of kitsch, My Silver Planet transforms our sense of kitsch as a category of material culture.

About the author

Daniel Tiffany is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of nine books of poetry and literary theory, including Infidel Poetics: Riddles, Nightlife, Substance and Neptune Park. He has also published translations of texts by Sophocles and the Italian poet Cesare Pavese, as well as Georges Bataille’s pornographic tale, Madame Edwarda. He is a recipient of a Whiting Fellowship and the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin.

Summary

By exposing and elaborating the historical poetics of kitsch, My Silver Planet transforms our sense of kitsch as a category of material culture.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Tiffany, Daniel (Professor of English and Comparat Tiffany, Daniel (Professor of English and Comparative Literature Tiffany
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.02.2014
• EAN: 9781421411453
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-1145-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism; Hopkins Studies in Modernism
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies