My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch

by Daniel Tiffany

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421416980
• ISBN13: 9781421416984
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"