My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch (Hopkins Studies in Modernism),Used

My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch (Hopkins Studies in Modernism),Used

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Reveals the hidden origins of kitsch in poetry from the eighteenth century.Taking its title from John Keats, My Silver Planet contends that the problem of elite poetrys relation to popular culture bears the indelible mark of its turbulent incorporation of vernacular poetrya legacy shaped by nostalgia, contempt, and fraudulence. Daniel Tiffany reactivates and fundamentally redefines the concept of kitsch, freeing it from modernist misapprehension and ridicule, by tracing its origin to poetrys alienation from the emergent category of literature. Tiffany excavates the forgotten history of poetrys relation to kitsch, beginning with the exuberant revival of archaic (and often spurious) ballads in Britain in the early eighteenth century. In these controversial events of poetic imposture, Tiffany identifies a submerged pactin opposition to the bourgeois values of literaturebetween elite and vernacular poetries.Tiffany argues that the ballad revivalthe earliest explicit formation of what we now call popular culturesparked a perilous but seemingly irresistible flirtation (among elite audiences) with poetic forgery that endures today in the ambiguity of the kitsch artifact: Is it real or fake, art or kitsch? He goes on to trace the genealogy of kitsch in texts ranging from nursery rhymes and poetic melodrama to the lyric commodities of Baudelaire. He scrutinizes the fascist paradise inscribed in Ezra Pounds Cantos as well as the avantgarde poetry of the New York School and its debt to pop and plastic art. By exposing and elaborating the historical poetics of kitsch, My Silver Planet transforms our sense of kitsch as a category of material culture.

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