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Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold War: Containment, Leakage, Anarchy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798765132555)
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xThe first book-length study focusing on Robert Lowell's career-long preoccupation with the liberal mode of translational adaptation known as imitation.
Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold Warargues that Lowell's imitations are simultaneously symptomatic of and critically responsive to familiar nodes of Cold War ideology such as containment and contamination, secrecy and security, post-imperial U.S. expansion and Empire. It departs from studies focused solely on Imitations(1961), Lowell's book-length collection of translational adaptations, by demonstrating how imitation shadows Lowell's work from his earliest collections, Land of Unlikeness (1944) and Lord Weary's Castle (1946), through his celebrated mid-career collections, Life Studies(1959) and For the Union Dead(1964), and to later works such as Near the Ocean(1969) and his contributions of adaptations from the Russian of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam collected in Olga Carlisle's anthology, Poets on Street Corners (1967).
Simon van Schalkwyk excavates the imitational substrate undergirding and informing Lowell's compositional method and poetic imagination throughout the course of his career. In so doing, he shows how imitation enacts, at the level of form, Lowell's restless investment in Cold War geopolitics and literary networks in ways that inform, develop, and complicate his more conventional canonization as an unquestionably 'American' poet preoccupied solely and simplistically with personal or autobiographical modes of poetic 'confession'.
As literary sites at which containment's dualities, porosities, leakages, and contaminants are most clearly displayed, Lowell's imitations simultaneously challenge and develop our understanding of confession's presumably strict preoccupation with the personal, regional and national frameworks through which Lowell has commonly been understood.
Author: Simon Van Schalkwyk
ISBN-13: 9798765132555
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2025
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold Warargues that Lowell's imitations are simultaneously symptomatic of and critically responsive to familiar nodes of Cold War ideology such as containment and contamination, secrecy and security, post-imperial U.S. expansion and Empire. It departs from studies focused solely on Imitations(1961), Lowell's book-length collection of translational adaptations, by demonstrating how imitation shadows Lowell's work from his earliest collections, Land of Unlikeness (1944) and Lord Weary's Castle (1946), through his celebrated mid-career collections, Life Studies(1959) and For the Union Dead(1964), and to later works such as Near the Ocean(1969) and his contributions of adaptations from the Russian of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam collected in Olga Carlisle's anthology, Poets on Street Corners (1967).
Simon van Schalkwyk excavates the imitational substrate undergirding and informing Lowell's compositional method and poetic imagination throughout the course of his career. In so doing, he shows how imitation enacts, at the level of form, Lowell's restless investment in Cold War geopolitics and literary networks in ways that inform, develop, and complicate his more conventional canonization as an unquestionably 'American' poet preoccupied solely and simplistically with personal or autobiographical modes of poetic 'confession'.
As literary sites at which containment's dualities, porosities, leakages, and contaminants are most clearly displayed, Lowell's imitations simultaneously challenge and develop our understanding of confession's presumably strict preoccupation with the personal, regional and national frameworks through which Lowell has commonly been understood.
Author: Simon Van Schalkwyk
ISBN-13: 9798765132555
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2025
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
By Simon Van Schalkwyk
xSimon van Schalkwyk is Senior Lecturer of English Studies at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and formerly Visiting Researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER). He is co-editor for Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies and academic editor for the Johannesburg Review of Books, and he has published a collection of poetry, Transcontinental Delay (2021).
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