Badiou and American Modernist Poetics

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.

Applies continental philosophy to Modernist poetry Considers modernity under a variety of lenses including literary theory, critical theory, psychoanalysis, and philosophy Advances scholarship on poetry and poetics and key Modernist poets

Autorentext
Cameron MacKenzie is Adjunct Professor of English at Ferrum College, USA. His work has appeared in SubStance, symplok, 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).

Inhalt

1. The Void and the Mark.- 2. A Poetic Dialectic: The Place is Void.- 3. Contaminated Intentions: Tradition and the Individual Talent.- 4. Badiou, Stevens, Drawing.- 5. The Natural Void.- 6. On the Other Side of Mastery.