Overview
- Extends research on contemporary poetry and economics to examine twenty-first century North American poetry
- Examines the socio-political underpinnings of contemporary cultural production
- Draws on economics, sociology, anthropology, political theory, postcolonial studies and more
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics (PSLCE)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book offers the first sustained study of the ways 21st century North American poems engage with financialization. It argues that recent poems about economics not only discuss but enact concerns with containment and agency essential to the contemporary financialized economy by manipulating the seemingly old-fashioned figures of synecdoche (the representation of the whole by the part) and prosopopeia or personification. Its four body chapters offer in-depth readings of the work of eleven formally, culturally, and thematically diverse contemporary U.S. and Canadian poets who variously consider labor, consumerism, debt, and the derivative form; the Coda reads several recent poems about reparations in terms of an emerging tendency to emphasize the historical, racialized, and ethical contexts of contemporary economics. As the book explores financialization’s representation in recent poetry, it redresses arguments that poetry is irrelevant to contemporary culture.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ann Keniston is the author of two monographs, including the Brooks-Warren Award-winning Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry (2015), and coeditor of multiple volumes considering post-9/11 and politically engaged literature. Also a poet, Ann is a Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economies of Scale
Book Subtitle: Financialization and Contemporary North American Poetry
Authors: Ann Keniston
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39341-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39340-2Published: 16 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39341-9Published: 15 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5400
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 143
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: North American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Economic History, North American Economics, Cultural Heritage