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The Ecology of Modernism explores the unexpected absence of an environmental ethic in American modernist and avant-garde poetics, given its keen concern with an ecological esthetic. Joshua Schuster explains why American modernism was never green. In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission. In his opening passage, Schuster boldly invokes lines from Walt Whitman's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, which echo as a paean to pollution: Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall! Schuster labels this theme regeneration through pollution and demonstrates how this motif recurs in modernist compositions. This tolerance for, if not actual exultation of, the by-products of industrialization hindered mo

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      Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: 9/30/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817358297, 978-0817358297
      ISBN10: 0817358293
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      Environmentalist thought and ideology Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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      Book Synopsis
      The Ecology of Modernism explores the unexpected absence of an environmental ethic in American modernist and avant-garde poetics, given its keen concern with an ecological esthetic. Joshua Schuster explains why American modernism was never green. In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission. In his opening passage, Schuster boldly invokes lines from Walt Whitman's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, which echo as a paean to pollution: Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall! Schuster labels this theme regeneration through pollution and demonstrates how this motif recurs in modernist compositions. This tolerance for, if not actual exultation of, the by-products of industrialization hindered mo

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