Infinity for Marxists

Essays on Poetry and Capital
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53684-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 281, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nealon, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

9789004536845
Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Camp Messianism, or the Hopes of Poetry in Late-Late Capitalism

2 The Poetic Case

3 Reading on The Left

4 Affect, Performativity, and Actually Existing Poetry

5 Infinity for Marxists

6 The Prynne Reflex

7 The Price of Value

8 The Anti-humanist Tone

9 Modernism, Critical Theory, and the Desire for Objecthood

10 Literary and Economic Value (with Joshua Clover)

11 Abstraction, Intuition, Poetry

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).