Description: 1. State of the Art 2. Artifice of Absorption 3. In the Middle of Modernism in the Middle of Capitalism on the Outskirts of New York 4. Time Out of Motion: Looking Ahead to See Backward 5. Pounding Fascism (Appropriating Ideologies- Mystification, Aestheticization, and Authority in Pound's Poetic Practice) 6. Play It Again, Pac-Man 7. Professing Stein / Stein Professing 8. Optimism and Critical Excess (Process) 9. Censers of the Unknown-Margins, Dissent, and the Poetic Horizon 10. The Second War and Postmodern Memory 11. Comedy and the Poetics of Political Form Acknowledgments

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