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Omnicompetent Modernists - Poetry, Politics, and the Public Sphere (Paperback)
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Omnicompetent Modernists - Poetry, Politics, and the Public Sphere (Paperback)
Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics
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It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die
miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there," as the
poet William Carlos Williams memorably declared. In Omnicompetent
Modernists: Poetry, Politics, and the Public Sphere, Matthew Hofer
examines, through a multilayered literary critique of interwar
modernist poetry, what it might mean to get the news, and more,
from a poet. Using pragmatist ideas about the public sphere as a
tool, Hofer reveals how Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, and Mina Loy
sought to use literature to both express and enable thought. In
Hughes, Pound, and Loy, Hofer attends to poets whose work
vigorously imagined possible new relationships between language,
thinking, and public society. Each poet had different goals and
used different methods, but all found both inspiration and
encouragement in popular political theory. Hughes advocated for a
more just vision of color and class in the United States. Pound
sought to condemn those whom he associated with public harm,
linguistically, socially, economically, and politically. Loy
championed the "psycho-democratic" representation of women, in both
public and private life. Although Hughes, Pound, and Loy are rarely
considered together, what unites these three writers is how each
reconceived the public realm, and revolutionized aesthetic form to
articulate those visions. Hofer combines sharp intellectual
historiography with rigorous literary criticism and the result is a
study that reinvigorates both the poems and poets under
consideration and speaks to the immense power of language in
manipulating public opinion-with pertinent implications for the
politics of the present.
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