Economies of Scale: Financialization and Contemporary North American Poetry

ISBN-13: 9783031393402 / Angielski

Ann Keniston

Spis treści

Introduction : Economies of Scale: Financialization and Contemporary North American Poetry.- Chapter One: “[A] fictive person / around whom the air is blurred with money”: Precarious Labor and the Work of Poetry.- Chapter Two: “Miss Thing”: Prosopopeia, Aliveness, and the Female Consumer.- Chapter Three: “[A]n arrangement of figures on an open field”: Death, Displacement, and Unrepayable Debts.- Chapter Four: “Were  you   afraid // your   book would vanish”: Gambling on the Print Book in the Electronic Age.- Chapter 5 : Coda: “[T]hese gestures of redress sailed to me!”: U.S. Poetry after 2016.

O autorze

Ann Keniston is the author of two monographs, including the Brooks-Warren Award-winning Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry (2015), and coeditor of multiple volumes considering post-9/11 and politically engaged literature. Also a poet, Ann is a Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.