{"product_id":"the-zukofsky-era-9781421427010","title":"The Zukofsky Era","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZukofsky, Oppen, and Niedecker wrote with a diversity of formal strategies but a singularity of purpose: the crafting of an anticapitalist poetics.   Inaugurated in 1931 by Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poetry gave expression to the complex contours of culture and politics in America during the Great Depression. This study of Zukofsky and two others in the Objectivist constellation, George Oppen and Lorine Niedecker, elaborates the dialectic between the formal experimental features of their poetry and their progressive commitments to the radical potentials of modernity.   Mixing textual analysis, archival research, and historiography, Ruth Jennison shows how Zukofsky, Oppen, and Niedecker braided their experiences as working-class Jews, political activists, and feminists into radical, canon-challenging poetic forms. Using the tools of critical geography, Jennison offers an account of the relationship between the uneven spatial landscapes of capitalism in crisis and the Objectivists' para\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn illuminating, insightful, and theoretically rigorous engagement with Objectivist poetics that is sure to shape subsequent discussion.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eReview of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJennison embraces a precise critical vocabulary that serves her purpose well. . . Most importantly, [she] presents an incisive and rigorous reading of Zukovsky's early work, not against his own interpretive choices but informed by them.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eJournal of American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe signal theoretical work of the year is Ruth Jennison's \u003ci\u003eThe Zukofsky Era\u003c\/i\u003e . . . It seems unlikely that work on both [Zukofsky and Oppen] in the coming years will be able to avoid responding to Jennison's reconfiguration of the critical terrain—this is a work sure to have a wide influence.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJennison delivers the most satisfying and intellectually robust explanation we have yet had of Zukofsky, in particular, and Objectivism, in general. No account of modernist poetics should be able to present itself without embarrassment if it avoids Jennison's readings. Along with Moretti and Eagleton, \u003ci\u003eThe Zukofsky Era\u003c\/i\u003e shows that large-scale historical accounts can deliver complex textual readings. More please.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Uneven Poetics of Radical Parataxis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Zukofsky: The Political Economy of Revolutionary Modernism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. G. Oppen, Materialiste: Cinematic Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Commodity's Inscape\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Zukofsky: The Voice of the Fetish\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Niedecker: The Interior Voice Commodified\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Objectivist Reflex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Zukofsky: Counterfetishistic Literacy\u003cbr\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408127435095,"sku":"9781421427010","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421427010.jpg?v=1730501684","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-zukofsky-era-9781421427010","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}