The Poetics of Fascism

"The Poetics of Fascism is a remarkable achievement and its serious, important, and fervent argument deserves to attract a wide readership. Its scholarly, but always accessible, reframings of the relations among modernism, marxist thought, and poststructural criticism are certain to engage all who are interested in the politics of contemporary culture. With any luck this book will make it impossible to teach 'modernism as usual' ever again: impossible, that is, to celebrate a modernism whose ideology we ostentatiously fail, or pointedly refuse, to address."--Lee Edelman, Tufts University "[Morrison] knows his business, is learned on fascism, is thoroughly conversant whith the records of Pound and Eliot, and argues plausibly for their influence on the welter of notions associated with postmodernism."--The Sewannee Review "The Poetics of Fascism is a remarkable achievement and its serious, important, and fervent argument deserves to attract a wide readership. Its scholarly, but always accessible, reframings of the relations among modernism, marxist thought, and poststructural criticism are certain to engage all who are interested in the politics of contemporary culture. With any luck this book will make it impossible to teach 'modernism as usual' ever again: impossible, that is, to celebrate a modernism whose ideology we ostentatiously fail, or pointedly refuse, to address."--Lee Edelman, Tufts University "[Morrison] knows his business, is learned on fascism, is thoroughly conversant whith the records of Pound and Eliot, and argues plausibly for their influence on the welter of notions associated with postmodernism."--The Sewannee Review