Introduction: Why Modernist Innovations in the Arts Still Matter -- Chapter 1. How Modernist Transformations of the Object Affect Its Presentations of Subjectivity -- Chapter 2. The Logic of Modernist Art's Resistance to Materialisms Old and New -- Chapter 3. Ezra Pound and Marianne Moore: Why Imagism Could Not Suffice -- Chapter 4. T.S. Eliot's Christian Poetics and Hegel's Ideal of Inner Sensuousness -- Chapter 5. What Is "Ordinary" about Wallace Stevens's "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"?
Chapter 6. Making the Unmaking: How John Ashbery Altered the Ambitions of Constructivist Art -- Epilogue. Why This Emphasis on Self-Consciousness Might Matter for Contemporary Thinking about the Mind -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
In Modernist Poetry and the Limitations of Materialist Theory, Charles Altieri skillfully dissects the benefits and limitations of Materialist theory for works of art
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 20, 2021)
