The poetics of fascism
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
Morrison examines the legacy of the modernist poetics of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, as it relates to current theoretical orthodoxies, and traces its influence on the current crisis in post-structural literary theory. Morrison reads the politics of post-structural theory in relation to the socio-cultural arguments espoused in the poetry and prose of Pound and Eliot, and reveals a continuity between that theory and high modernism's tendency towards fascism.
Read more
Morrison concludes with a provocative analysis of deconstruction and the work of Paul de Man. Without reducing the political implications of poetry to mere caricature and without slighting the force and fact of literary mediation, The Poetics of Fascism will reshape the discussion of the social dimension of modernism.
Liked The poetics of fascism? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked The poetics of fascism. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Original Intents: Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and the American Founding Shares political and social views, USA, history
-
Money and modernity Shares political and social views, poetry, history -
FDR and civil aviation Shares political and social views, USA, history -
Madison's Metronome: The Constitution, Majority Rule, and the Tempo of American Politics Shares political and social views, USA, history
