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100 1  Schuster, Joshua,|eauthor. 
245 14 The ecology of modernism :|bAmerican environments and 
       avant-garde poetics /|cJoshua Schuster. 
264  1 Tuscaloosa, Alabama :|bThe University of Alabama,|c[2015] 
300    xv, 216 pages ;|c23 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent. 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia. 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier. 
490 1  Modern and contemporary poetics. 
520    " In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines 
       the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and 
       musicians to nature, industrial development, and 
       pollution. He posits that that the curious failure of 
       modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a 
       deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission. In his 
       opening passage, Schuster boldly invokes lines from Walt 
       Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," which echo as a paean
       to pollution: "Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! 
       cast black shadows at nightfall!" Schuster labels this 
       theme "regeneration through pollution" and demonstrates 
       how this motif recurs in modernist compositions. This 
       tolerance for, if not actual exultation of, the by-
       products of industrialization hindered modernist American 
       artists, writers, and musicians from embracing 
       environmentalist agendas. Schuster provides specific case 
       studies focusing on Marianne Moore and her connection of 
       fables with animal rights; Gertrude Stein and concepts of 
       nature in her avant-garde poetics; early blues music and 
       poetry and the issue of how environmental disasters 
       (floods, droughts, pestilence) affected black farmers and 
       artists in the American South; and John Cage, who extends 
       the modernist avant-garde project formally but critiques 
       it at the same time for failing to engage with ecology. A 
       fascinating afterword about the role of oil in modernist 
       literary production rounds out this work. Schuster 
       masterfully shines a light on the modernist interval 
       between the writings of bucolic and nature-extolling 
       Romantics and the emergence of a self-conscious green 
       movement in the 1960s. This rewarding work shows that the 
       reticence of modernist poets in the face of resource 
       depletion, pollution, animal rights, and other ecological 
       traumas is highly significant"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 American poetry|xHistory and criticism. 
650  0 Modernism (Literature)|zUnited States. 
650  0 Ecology in literature. 
650  0 Environmental protection in literature. 
650  0 Literature, Experimental|zUnited States. 
830  0 Modern and contemporary poetics. 
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970 01 |tPreface: Conceptualizing Modernism's Ecologies|pvii 
970 01 |tAcknowledgments|pxiii 
970 01 |tIntroduction: Regeneration through Pollution|p1 
970 11 |l1.|tFables: On the Morals of Marianne Moore's Animal 
       Monologues|p22 
970 11 |l2.|tAmbience: How to Read Gertrude Stein's Natures|p47 
970 11 |l3.|tBlues: Race and Environmental Distress in Early 
       American Blues Music|p78 
970 11 |l4.|tTraffic: Noise as an Ecological Aesthetic in the Art
       of John Cage|p103 
970 11 |l5.|tContaminated Life: Biopolitics after Rachel Carson
       |p132 
970 11 |l6.|tConclusion|p153 
970 01 |tAfterword: Where Is the Oil in Modernism?|p162 
970 01 |tNotes|p173 
970 01 |tBibliography|p197 
970 01 |tIndex|p213 
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