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My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch
Daniel Tiffany
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Description for My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch
Hardback. By exposing and elaborating the historical poetics of kitsch, My Silver Planet transforms our sense of kitsch as a category of material culture. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
Taking its title from John Keats, My Silver Planet contends that the problem of elite poetry's relation to popular culture bears the indelible mark of its turbulent incorporation of vernacular poetry - a legacy shaped by nostalgia, contempt, and fraudulence. Daniel Tiffany reactivates and fundamentally redefines the concept of kitsch, freeing it from modernist misapprehension and ridicule, by tracing its origin to poetry's alienation from the emergent category of literature. Tiffany excavates the forgotten history of poetry's relation to kitsch, beginning with the exuberant revival of archaic (and often spurious) ballads in Britain in the early eighteenth century. In these ... Read more
Taking its title from John Keats, My Silver Planet contends that the problem of elite poetry's relation to popular culture bears the indelible mark of its turbulent incorporation of vernacular poetry - a legacy shaped by nostalgia, contempt, and fraudulence. Daniel Tiffany reactivates and fundamentally redefines the concept of kitsch, freeing it from modernist misapprehension and ridicule, by tracing its origin to poetry's alienation from the emergent category of literature. Tiffany excavates the forgotten history of poetry's relation to kitsch, beginning with the exuberant revival of archaic (and often spurious) ballads in Britain in the early eighteenth century. In these ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Hopkins Studies in Modernism
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421411453
SKU
V9781421411453
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About Daniel Tiffany
Daniel Tiffany is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of nine books of poetry and literary theory, including Infidel Poetics: Riddles, Nightlife, Substance and Neptune Park.
Reviews for My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch
Tiffany is persuasive in arguing that the now ubiquitous idea of 'kitsch' originates in poetry, poetic language, and the articulated views of many players in the greater culture... The value of the book lies in application: understanding the origins of poetic 'kitsch' allows one to understand elite culture better and to use that knowledge as a link between elite culture ... Read more