Economies of Scale: Financialization and Contemporary North American Poetry - Couverture rigide

Keniston, Ann

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3031393406 ISBN 13 : 9783031393402

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Synopsis

This book offers the first sustained study of the ways 21^st century North American poems engage with financialization. It argues that recent poems about economics not only discuss but enact concerns with containment and agency essential to the contemporary financialized economy by manipulating the seemingly old-fashioned figures of synecdoche (the representation of the whole by the part) and prosopopeia or personification. Its four body chapters offer in-depth readings of the work of eleven formally, culturally, and thematically diverse contemporary U.S. and Canadian poets who variously consider labor, consumerism, debt, and the derivative form; the Coda reads several recent poems about reparations in terms of an emerging tendency to emphasize the historical, racialized, and ethical contexts of contemporary economics. As the book explores financialization's representation in recent poetry, it redresses arguments that poetry is irrelevant to contemporary culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3031393406
• ISBN 13: 9783031393402
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 156
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