Book contents
- Modernism and Finance Capital
- Modernism and Finance Capital
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I From Victorian Character to Modernist Professional
- Part II Finance Capital and the Economic and Cultural Turn toward London
- Part III Modernism, Affect, and the Rise of the Modern Corporation
- Chapter 7 Finance Capital and the Modern Corporation in Conrad’s Imperial Novels
- Chapter 8 The Affective Bloom-Space of Imagism
- Chapter 9 Literary Value and Affective Intensity in The Waste Land
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 8 - The Affective Bloom-Space of Imagism
from Part III - Modernism, Affect, and the Rise of the Modern Corporation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2024
- Modernism and Finance Capital
- Modernism and Finance Capital
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I From Victorian Character to Modernist Professional
- Part II Finance Capital and the Economic and Cultural Turn toward London
- Part III Modernism, Affect, and the Rise of the Modern Corporation
- Chapter 7 Finance Capital and the Modern Corporation in Conrad’s Imperial Novels
- Chapter 8 The Affective Bloom-Space of Imagism
- Chapter 9 Literary Value and Affective Intensity in The Waste Land
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
This chapter argues that Imagist poetry participates in the historical process of finance capital by developing the semiotics for a new form of value: affective intensity. Pound’s and H. D.’s Imagist poetry renders the raw moment of impact between bodies, which provides the foundation for affective experience, as an object of poetic study, literary representation, and semiotic problem to be solved. Therefore, Imagism, along with philosophical and commercial endeavors during this time period, lays the groundwork for affect to emerge as a value form in literature and as a site of social, economic, and cultural struggle under twentieth-century capitalist structures of power.
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- Modernism and Finance CapitalBritish Literature, 1870–1940, pp. 150 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024