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Robert Duncan and the 60s : psychoanalysis, politics, kitsch

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Katz, Daniel (2018) Robert Duncan and the 60s : psychoanalysis, politics, kitsch. Qui Parle : Critical Humanities and Social, 27 (1). pp. 157-197. doi:10.1215/10418385-4383019

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Abstract

This essay examines the contradictions of Robert Duncan’s 1960s political poetry by way of his reading of the legacy of modernism, notably as expounded in The H.D. Book. Drawing on the work of Daniel Tiffany, the essay first argues that here Duncan constructs a kitsch Ezra Pound to restore the true progressive political potential of Pound’s poetry. Using a largely Freudian methodology, Duncan finds in “kitsch” Pound a vector that opposes his authoritarian fascism. The essay then examines how Poundian poetics operates in Duncan’s poetry written in opposition to the Vietnam War and in support of the Berkeley free speech movement. This work is brought into dialogue with some of the conversations in France following May 1968 and with the slogan “Structures don’t take to the streets.” In both these sites, the question of the problematic relationship between individual political volition and activism, on the one hand, and a bourgeois conception of subjectivity, consciousness, and will, on the other, emerges as crucial.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PS American literature
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988, American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism, Political poetry, American -- History and criticism, Kitsch
Journal or Publication Title: Qui Parle : Critical Humanities and Social
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISSN: 1041-8385
Official Date: 1 June 2018
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DateEvent
1 June 2018Published
1 June 2018Available
4 December 2017Accepted
Volume: 27
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 157-197
DOI: 10.1215/10418385-4383019
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
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