Badiou and American Modernist Poetics

• Main Author: MacKenzie, Cameron (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Poetry.; Modern philosophy.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Poetry and Poetics.; Modern Philosophy.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.