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Epic Negation - The Dialectical Poetics of Late Modernism (Hardcover)
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Epic Negation - The Dialectical Poetics of Late Modernism (Hardcover)
Series: Modernist Literature and Culture
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Epic Negation examines the dialectical turn of modernist poetry
over the interwar period, arguing that late modernism inverts the
method of Ezra Pound's "poem including history" to conceive a
negated mode of epic, predicated on the encryption of
disarticulated historical content. Compelled to register the force
of a totality it cannot represent, this negated epic reorients the
function of poetic language and reference, remaking the poem, and
late modernism generally, as a critical instrument of dialectical
reason. Part I reads The Waste Land alongside the review it
prefaced, The Criterion, arguing that the poem establishes the
editorial method with which T. S. Eliot constructs the review's
totalizing account of culture. Dividing the epic's critical
function from its style, Eliot not only includes history
differently, but also formulates an intricately dialectical account
of the interwar crisis of bourgeois culture, formed in the image of
a Marxian critique it opposes. Part II turns to the second war's
onset, tracing the dislocated formal effects of an epic gone
underground. In the elegies and pastorals of W. H. Auden and Louis
MacNeice, lyric forms divulge the determining force of
unmentionable but universal events, dividing experience against
consciousness. With H.D.'s war trilogy, produced in a terse
exchange with Freud's Moses, even the poetic image lapses,
associating epic with the silent historical force of the
unconscious as such.
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