Infinity for Marxists : : Essays on Poetry and Capital.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book
• Author: Nealon, Christopher.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Materialism Book
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (275 pages)

"In these innovative essays on poetry and capitalism, collected over the last fifteen years, Christopher Nealon shines a light on the upsurge of anticapitalist poetry since the turn of the century, and developing fresh ways of thinking about how capitalist society shapes the reading and the writing of all poetry, whatever its political orientation. Breaking from half a century of postmodernist readings of poetry, and bypassing the false divide between formalist and historicist criticism, these essays chart a path toward a new Marxist poetics"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgments -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Chapter 1. Camp Messianism, or the Hopes of Poetry in Late-Late Capitalism -- ‎Chapter 2. The Poetic Case -- ‎Chapter 3. Reading on the Left -- ‎Chapter 4. Affect, Performativity, and Actually Existing Poetry -- ‎Chapter 5. Infinity for Marxists -- ‎Chapter 6. The Prynne Reflex -- ‎Chapter 7. The Price of Value -- ‎Chapter 8. The Anti-humanist Tone -- ‎Chapter 9. Modernism, Critical Theory, and the Desire for Objecthood -- ‎Chapter 10. Literary and Economic Value (with Joshua Clover) -- ‎Chapter 11. Abstraction, Intuition, Poetry -- ‎References -- ‎Index.