{"product_id":"the-calamity-form-anahid-nersessian-9780226701318","title":"The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life","description":"Romanticism coincided with two major historical developments: the Industrial Revolution, and with it, a turning point in our relationship to the earth, its inhabitants, and its climate. Drawing on Marxism and philosophy of science, \u003ci\u003e The Calamity Form\u003c\/i\u003e shines new light on Romantic poetry, identifying a number of rhetorical tropes used by writers to underscore their very failure to make sense of our move to industrialization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Anahid Nersessian explores works by Friedrich H lderlin, William Wordsworth, John Keats, and others to argue that as the human and ecological costs of industry became clear, Romantic poetry adopted formal strategies--among them parataxis, the setting of elements side by side in a manner suggestive of postindustrial dissonance, and apostrophe, here an address to an absent or vanishing natural environment--as it tried and failed to narrate the calamities of capitalism. These tropes reflect how Romantic authors took their bewilderment and turned it into a poetics: a theory of writing, reading, and understanding poetry as an eminently critical act. Throughout, Nersessian pushes back against recent attempts to see literature as a source of information on par with historical or scientific data, arguing instead for an irreducibility of poetic knowledge. Revealing the ways in which these Romantic works are \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e their time but not \u003ci\u003eabout \u003c\/i\u003eit, \u003ci\u003eThe Calamity Form \u003c\/i\u003eultimately exposes the nature of poetry's relationship to capital--and capital's ability to hide how it works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anahid Nersessian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022670131X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226701318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2021","brand":"Anahid Nersessian","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46420339851519,"sku":"9780226701318","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_32749f24-add9-46b1-a999-f8e648ab0d30.jpg?v=1734634343","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-calamity-form-anahid-nersessian-9780226701318","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}