Badiou and American Modernist Poetics

Badiou and American Modernist Poetics explores the correspondence between Alain Badiou's thinking on art and that of the canonical modernists T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the text engages with themes of the void, mastery, and place present in both modernist poetry and in Badiou's philosophy. Through an examination of classic modernist texts, Cameron MacKenzie reveals that where Badiou hopes to go, the modernists have already been.

List of contents

1. The Void and the Mark.- 2. A Poetic Dialectic: The Place is Void.- 3. Contaminated Intentions: Tradition and the Individual Talent.- 4. Badiou, Stevens, Drawing.- 5. The Natural Void.- 6. On the Other Side of Mastery.

About the author

Cameron MacKenzie is Adjunct Professor of English at Ferrum College, USA. His work has appeared in SubStance, symplokē, and The Cormac McCarthy Journal, and his essays have been collected in The Waste Land at 90: A Retrospective (2011) and Edward P. Jones: New Essays (2011).

Summary

Badiou and American Modernist Poetics explores the correspondence between Alain Badiou's thinking on art and that of the canonical modernists T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the text engages with themes of the void, mastery, and place present in both modernist poetry and in Badiou’s philosophy. Through an examination of classic modernist texts, Cameron MacKenzie reveals that where Badiou hopes to go, the modernists have already been.

Product details

• Authors: Cameron Mackenzie
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.08.2018
• EAN: 9783319950273
• ISBN: 978-3-31-995027-3
• No. of pages: 88
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 219 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 230 g
• Illustrations: XI, 88 p. 2 illus.
• Series: Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; C, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, Poetry, Philosophy, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Philosophische Traditionen und Denkschulen, Poetry and Poetics, Modern Philosophy, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Early Modern Philosophy