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The Calamity Form - On Poetry and Social Life (Hardcover)
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The Calamity Form - On Poetry and Social Life (Hardcover)
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Romanticism coincided with two major historical developments: the
Industrial Revolution, and with it, a turning point in our
relationship to the earth, its inhabitants, and its climate.
Drawing on Marxism and philosophy of science, The Calamity Form
shines new light on Romantic poetry, identifying a number of
rhetorical tropes used by writers to underscore their very failure
to make sense of our move to industrialization. Anahid Nersessian
explores works by Friedrich Hoelderlin, William Wordsworth, John
Keats, and others to argue that as the human and ecological costs
of industry became clear, Romantic poetry adopted formal
strategies-among them parataxis, the setting of elements side by
side in a manner suggestive of postindustrial dissonance, and
apostrophe, here an address to an absent or vanishing natural
environment-as it tried and failed to narrate the calamities of
capitalism. These tropes reflect how Romantic authors took their
bewilderment and turned it into a poetics: a theory of writing,
reading, and understanding poetry as an eminently critical act.
Throughout, Nersessian pushes back against recent attempts to see
literature as a source of information on par with historical or
scientific data, arguing instead for an irreducibility of poetic
knowledge. Revealing the ways in which these Romantic works are of
their time but not about it, The Calamity Form ultimately exposes
the nature of poetry's relationship to capital-and capital's
ability to hide how it works.
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