Badiou and American Modernist Poetics

ISBN-13: 9783319950273 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 88 str.

Cameron MacKenzie

Opis

Badiou and American Modernist Poetics explores the correspondence between Alain Badiou's thinking on art and that of the canonical modernists T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the text engages with themes of the void, mastery, and place present in both modernist poetry and in Badiou's philosophy. Through an examination of classic modernist texts, Cameron MacKenzie reveals that where Badiou hopes to go, the modernists have already been.

Spis treści

1. The Void and the Mark

2. A Poetic Dialectic: The Place is Void

            2.1 Master, Place, and Truth

            2.2 A Throw of the Dice

            2.3 The Ode of Labíd

            2.4 The Subject of the Void

3. Contaminated Intentions: Tradition and the Individual Talent

            3.1 Building the Ideal Order

            3.2 A Ruined Bicycle

            3.3 The Poet and the Critic

4. Badiou, Stevens, Drawing

            4.1 Dis-placed From the Place

            4.2 “…On Wallace Stevens”

            4.3 “Drawing…”

5. The Natural Void

            5.1 The Larger Nature

            5.2 Truth and Distance, Difference, Void

            5.3 Dissolving the Void: Grammar

            5.4 The Thing Is All That It Does

            5.5 From Void to Nature

6. On the Other Side of Mastery

O autorze

Cameron MacKenzie is Adjunct Professor of English at Ferrum College, USA. His work has appeared in SubStance, symplokē, and The Cormac McCarthy Journal, and his essays have been collected in The Waste Land at 90: A Retrospective (2011) and Edward P. Jones: New Essays (2011).