Riley Peter (Lecturer In American Literature University Of Exeter)
Riley Peter (Lecturer In American Literature University Of Exeter) - Whitman Melville Crane And The Labors Of American Poetry Against Vocation - Hardcover
Riley Peter (Lecturer In American Literature University Of Exeter) - Whitman Melville Crane And The Labors Of American Poetry Against Vocation - Hardcover
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Description: In Whitman Melville Crane and the Labors of American Poetry Peter Riley confronts our enduring and problematic investment in poetic vocation - - a myth he argues that continues to inform how all our multifarious labors are understood valued and exploited. The book seeks to challenge a dominant cultural logic that frames contingent non - vocational labor as a necessary sacrifice that frustrates the righteous progress towards realizing that seemingly purest of callings: Poet. Incorporating the often overlooked or excluded workaday ephemera of three canonical US Romantic poets - - Walt Whitman Herman Melville and Hart Crane - - this volume offers new archival insights that call for a re - examination of celebrated literary careers and disputes their status as renowned or tragic icons of creative vocation. The poetry of Whitman the real estate dealer Melville the customs inspector and Crane the copywriter Riley contends does not constitute the formal inscription of an antagonistic or discreet poetic labor struggling against quotidian work towards the fulfilment of exceptional individual callings. Instead the distracted forms of their poetry are always already intermingled with a variety of apparently lesser labors. Ousting poetic production from its default sanctuary of privileged exemption or transcendent repose the volume refigures the work of the poet as a living sensuous activity that transgresses labor's various divisions and hierarchies. It consequently recasts the poet as a figure who actually unfastens the 'right of passage vocational logic that does so much to secure and reproduce the current neoliberal paradigm.
Title: Whitman Melville Crane And The Labors Of American Poetry Against Vocation
Author(s): Riley Peter (Lecturer In American Literature University Of Exeter)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198836254
Pages: 224 Pages, 11 Illustrations
Publication Date: 7/23/2019
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
Description: In Whitman Melville Crane and the Labors of American Poetry Peter Riley confronts our enduring and problematic investment in poetic vocation - - a myth he argues that continues to inform how all our multifarious labors are understood valued and exploited. The book seeks to challenge a dominant cultural logic that frames contingent non - vocational labor as a necessary sacrifice that frustrates the righteous progress towards realizing that seemingly purest of callings: Poet. Incorporating the often overlooked or excluded workaday ephemera of three canonical US Romantic poets - - Walt Whitman Herman Melville and Hart Crane - - this volume offers new archival insights that call for a re - examination of celebrated literary careers and disputes their status as renowned or tragic icons of creative vocation. The poetry of Whitman the real estate dealer Melville the customs inspector and Crane the copywriter Riley contends does not constitute the formal inscription of an antagonistic or discreet poetic labor struggling against quotidian work towards the fulfilment of exceptional individual callings. Instead the distracted forms of their poetry are always already intermingled with a variety of apparently lesser labors. Ousting poetic production from its default sanctuary of privileged exemption or transcendent repose the volume refigures the work of the poet as a living sensuous activity that transgresses labor's various divisions and hierarchies. It consequently recasts the poet as a figure who actually unfastens the 'right of passage vocational logic that does so much to secure and reproduce the current neoliberal paradigm.
Title: Whitman Melville Crane And The Labors Of American Poetry Against Vocation
Author(s): Riley Peter (Lecturer In American Literature University Of Exeter)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198836254
Pages: 224 Pages, 11 Illustrations
Publication Date: 7/23/2019
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
