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Forms at the End of the World: Subject-System Identity and the Figuration of Late Capitalism in Contemporary American Poetry.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Forms at the End of the World: Subject-System Identity and the Figuration of Late Capitalism in Contemporary American Poetry./
Author:	Leveling, Katherine.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	252 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-10A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27663968
ISBN:	9781658416375

Forms at the End of the World: Subject-System Identity and the Figuration of Late Capitalism in Contemporary American Poetry.
Leveling, Katherine.

Forms at the End of the World: Subject-System Identity and the Figuration of Late Capitalism in Contemporary American Poetry. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 252 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This project examines American poetry and other media objects created from the early 1970s to present to argue that the contemporary American era is characterized by a tendency to co-think and co-figure social systems and individual subjects within them. This tendency, which I term subject-system identity, arises from historical developments in the global economy and concomitant experience thereof. I argue that the contemporary economy's ongoing expansion in both scale and complexity, experienced in tandem with its unprecedented and continually increasing invasiveness into individual lives, results in an aesthetic mode which figures subject and system on the same scale, through the same representative frameworks, as one united entity. In subject-system identity, a subject is conceptualized, depicted, and understood to be the same as the wider system to which they are joined. The perception leads to fascinating formal experimentation in poetry and other art objects: we can identify subject-system identity in poetry that expands the lyric "I" beyond the singular subject, images that join the scale of the individual human to the scale of the systemic and the global, and aesthetic frameworks that seem to stretch the laws of matter themselves. In this project, I study work from poets Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Claudia Rankine and multimedia artist Hayden Dunham to track how these economic features enable this perception. In doing so, I aim to give voice to the particular oddities of our historical era, capturing micro-moments that illuminate at a macro-level the various brinks of transformation-social, economic, and aesthetic-on which the contemporary world is poised.

ISBN: 9781658416375Subjects--Topical Terms:

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American literature.
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American poetry

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