TY - GEN T1 - Epic negation : the dialectical poetics of late modernism T2 - Modernist literature & culture. A1 - Blanton, C. D. (Charles Daniel), 1968- LA - English PP - New York PB - Oxford University Press YR - 2015 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn903014416 AB - "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Pound's "poem including history" to conceive a negated mode of epic, predicated on the encryption of disarticulated historical content.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"-- CN - PS310.M57 B53 2015eb SN - 9780199844722 SN - 0199844720 SN - 9780190231590 SN - 0190231599 SN - 9780199844715 KW - American poetry : 20th century : History and criticism : Theory, etc. KW - English poetry : 20th century : History and criticism : Theory, etc. KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Poetry : Explication. KW - Epic poetry, American : History and criticism. KW - Epic poetry, English : History and criticism. KW - Poetry, Modern : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Poetics. KW - Literature : Philosophy. KW - Poésie américaine : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique : Théorie, etc. KW - Poésie anglaise : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique : Théorie, etc. KW - Modernisme (Littérature) KW - Poésie : Explication de texte. KW - Poésie épique américaine : Histoire et critique. KW - Poésie épique anglaise : Histoire et critique. KW - Poétique. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : Poetry. KW - Literature : Philosophy KW - Epic poetry, American KW - Epic poetry, English KW - Poetics KW - Poetry : Explication KW - Poetry, Modern KW - 1900-1999 KW - Electronic books. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -