{"product_id":"my-silver-planet-9781421411453","title":"My Silver Planet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy exposing and elaborating the historical poetics of kitsch, My Silver Planet transforms our sense of kitsch as a category of material culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTiffany is persuasive in arguing that the now ubiquitous idea of 'kitsch' originates in poetry, poetic language, and the articulated views of many players in the greater culture... The value of the book lies in application: understanding the origins of poetic 'kitsch' allows one to understand elite culture better and to use that knowledge as a link between elite culture and vernacular culture. Choice My Silver Planet offers a thrilling new way to read poetry from the past two hundred years. -- Mike Chaser Poetry Magazine A strength of Tiffany's book as a whole is that its history of the relationship of lyric poetry and kitsch from graveyard gothic to Pound reveals the pleasures and anxieties of an art forever seeking to justify its artifices in a natural authority, whether in the rhythms of labor, the rhythms of the sexual body, an essentialism of blood or land, or a totalitarian politics. -- John Wilkinson Modern Philology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Arresting Poetry\u003cbr\u003eUnpopular Pop\u003cbr\u003eMissing Verses\u003cbr\u003eBogus\u003cbr\u003eTwice Made\u003cbr\u003eMass Ornament\u003cbr\u003e2. Poetic Diction and the Substance of Kitsch\u003cbr\u003eDreams, Mottos, Gossip\u003cbr\u003eChatter and Virtuosity\u003cbr\u003ePhraseology\u003cbr\u003eMorbid Animation\u003cbr\u003e3. Miscreant\u003cbr\u003eDoppelgänger\u003cbr\u003eSynthetic Vernaculars\u003cbr\u003ePoetry vs. Literature\u003cbr\u003eCommonplace\u003cbr\u003eLyric Fatality\u003cbr\u003eThieves' Latin\u003cbr\u003e4. The Spurious Progeny of Bare Nature\u003cbr\u003eBalladry and the Burden of Popular Culture\u003cbr\u003eExploded Beings and After-Poets\u003cbr\u003eLive Burial\u003cbr\u003e5. Illiterature\u003cbr\u003eRefrain\u003cbr\u003eLullaby Logic\u003cbr\u003eThe Cult of Simplicity\u003cbr\u003ePets, Trifles, Toys\u003cbr\u003eGothic Verse and Melodrama\u003cbr\u003eSilver Proxy\u003cbr\u003e6. Queer Idylls\u003cbr\u003eTopologies of Privacy\u003cbr\u003eReliques\u003cbr\u003ePoetaster\u003cbr\u003eKitsch, Camp, and Homo-fascism\u003cbr\u003e1800 Words\u003cbr\u003ePoison\u003cbr\u003e7. Kitsching the Cantos\u003cbr\u003eVortex and Cream Puff\u003cbr\u003eContraband\u003cbr\u003eThe Kitsch of Apocalypse\u003cbr\u003eEpic, Rhapsody, Seizure\u003cbr\u003eBad Infinity\u003cbr\u003eEthnofascist Souvenirs\u003cbr\u003e8. Junk\u003cbr\u003eThermofax\u003cbr\u003eDada Kitsch\u003cbr\u003eAfter After-Poets\u003cbr\u003eCoterie and Melodrama\u003cbr\u003eThe Metaphysics of Kitsch\u003cbr\u003e9. Inventing Clichés\u003cbr\u003ePlastic Poetry\u003cbr\u003eLiar, Liar\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003eIn the Poisonous Candy Factory\u003cbr\u003eCounterfeit Capital\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529528418647,"sku":"9781421411453","price":37.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421411453.jpg?v=1731875968","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/my-silver-planet-9781421411453","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}