'Epic Negation' examines the dialectical turn of modernist poetry over the interwar period, arguing that late modernism inverts the method of Ezra Pound's 'poem including history' to conceive a negated mode of epic, predicated on the encryption of disarticulated historical content. Compelled to register the force of a totality it cannot represent, this negated epic reorients the function of poetic language and reference, remaking the poem, and late modernism generally, as a critical instrument of dialectical reason
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
English poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
Epic poetry, American-- History and criticism.
Epic poetry, English-- History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Poetics.
Poetry-- Explication.
Poetry, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism.