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Book SynopsisHow scrapbooking, book collecting, and other ways of handling print media informed modernist poetry.
In Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print, Bartholomew Brinkman argues that an emerging mass print culture conditioned the production, reception, and institutionalization of poetic modernism from the latter part of the nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth centurywith lasting implications for the poetry and media landscape. Drawing upon extensive archival research in the United States and Britain, Brinkman demonstrates that a variety of print collecting practicesincluding the anthology, the periodical, the collage poem, volumes of selected and collected poems, and the modern poetry archivehelped structure key formal and institutional sites of poetic modernism.
Brinkman focuses on the generative role of book collecting practices and the negotiation of print ephemera in scrapbooks. He also traces the evolution of the modern poetry arch
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An indirect critique of New Criticism, Poetic Modernism will appeal to anyone interested in the intersection of modernism and cultural materialism. Recommended. Choice
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: Poetic Modernism and the Culture of Mass Print Chapter One: As Good as Gold: Palgrave's Golden Treasury, Poetic Value, and the ObjectiveAnthologyChapter Two: Making Modern Poetry: Format, Form, and Modern Poetic GenreChapter Three: Scrapping Modernism: Marianne Moore and the Making of the Modern Collage PoemChapter Four: Selecting Modernism: Eliot, Faber, and Poetic ReproductionChapter Five: Instituting Modernism: The Rise of the Modern American Poetry ArchiveCoda: Remaking Poetic Modernism after a Culture of Mass Print NotesBibliographyIndex
