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PIVOTAL STUDIES IN THE GLOBAL AMERICAN LITERARY IMAGINATION SERIES EDITORS: DANIEL T. O’HARA · DONALD E. PEASE Badiou and American Modernist Poetics Cameron MacKenzie Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination Series Editors Daniel T. O’Hara Temple University Philadelphia, PA, USA Donald E. Pease Dartmouth College Hanover, NH, USA “Cameron MacKenzie, connecting canonical modernist poetry and poetics—the work of Eliot, Stevens, and Pound—with Alain Badiou’s latter-day philosoph- ical writing, reveals the surprising continuity that subtends a century of medi- tations on aesthetics and Being. Students and seasoned scholars alike will find MacKenzie’s book a bracing contribution to current literary criticism.” —Robert L. Caserio, Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA This series will present new critical perspectives on the histories and leg- acies shaping the divergent visions of America in the world within lit- erary texts. Texts that re-envision America and its relationship to the larger world, in ways other than exceptionalist, will provide a point of critical focus for these cutting edge scholarly studies. Using the unique format of Palgrave Pivot to make an incisive intervention into current scholarship, the stress in these books will be on how American literary texts have and continue to contribute to the reformation of the vision of America in the world from roughly the antebellum period to the pres- ent. As “transnational” approaches to scholarly production have become mainstream, Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination considers the complexities of such an appropriation and, instead, develop alternative global perspectives. All American genealogies from the New England preeminence through the mid-century modern cold war con- sensus to post-modern dissensus, transatlantic, global/transnational turns (and counter-turns) would be tapped and the word “American” in the title will include all of North America. All critical perspectives would also be welcome, so long as the focus is on the question of how the texts and subjects discussed bear on the question of the global American lit- erary imagination. Finally, the authors will demonstrate how to read their chosen texts, revealing the ways these new interpretations foster informed critique and revised critical methods. Books published within this series should fall within the Pivot length limits of 25,000–50,000 words. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/15082 Cameron MacKenzie Badiou and American Modernist Poetics Cameron MacKenzie Ferrum College Ferrum, VA, USA Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination ISBN 978-3-319-95027-3 ISBN 978-3-319-95028-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95028-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018947411 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 This work is subject to copyright. 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Cover illustration: Pattern adapted from an Indian cotton print produced in the 19th century This Palgrave Pivot imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland For Mom A cknowledgements I would like to thank Dan O’Hara, Shelly Brivic, Don Pease, and Alan Singer for their attention and encouragement, Steve Lento and Phil Mahoney for their dedication and insight, and Meredith for her faith, inspiration, and continued understanding. vii c ontents 1 The Void and the Mark 1 Bibliography 7 2 A Poetic Dialectic: The Place Is Void 9 2.1 Master, Place, and Truth 13 2.2 A Throw of the Dice 15 2.3 The Ode of Labíd 18 2.4 The Subject of the Void 21 Bibliography 24 3 Contaminated Intentions: Tradition and the Individual Talent 25 3.1 Building the Ideal Order 30 3.2 A Ruined Bicycle 34 3.3 The Poet and the Critic 37 Bibliography 41 4 Badiou, Stevens, Drawing 43 4.1 Dis-placed from the Place 46 4.2 “…on Wallace Stevens” 48 4.3 “Drawing…” 56 Bibliography 62 ix x CONTENTS 5 The Natural Void 63 5.1 The Larger Nature 68 5.2 Truth as Distance, Difference, Void 69 5.3 Dissolving the Void: Grammar 71 5.4 The Thing Is All That It Does 75 5.5 From Void to Nature 77 Bibliography 82 6 On the Other Side of Mastery 83 Bibliography 86 Index 87 l f ist of igures Fig. 5.1 Man Sees Horse 77 Fig. 5.2 Sun Rises (in the) East 80 xi
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