{"product_id":"robert-lowells-imitations-and-the-cold-war-containment-leakage-anarchy-9798765132555","title":"Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold War: Containment, Leakage, Anarchy","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first book-length study focusing on Robert Lowell's career-long preoccupation with the liberal mode of translational adaptation known as imitation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold War\u003c\/i\u003eargues that Lowell's imitations are simultaneously symptomatic of and critically responsive to familiar nodes of Cold War ideology such as containment and contamination, secrecy and security, post-imperial U.S. expansion and Empire. It departs from studies focused solely on \u003ci\u003eImitations\u003c\/i\u003e(1961), Lowell's book-length collection of translational adaptations, by demonstrating how imitation shadows Lowell's work from his earliest collections, \u003ci\u003eLand of Unlikeness\u003c\/i\u003e (1944) and \u003ci\u003eLord Weary's Castle\u003c\/i\u003e (1946), through his celebrated mid-career collections, \u003ci\u003eLife Studies\u003c\/i\u003e(1959) and \u003ci\u003eFor the Union Dead\u003c\/i\u003e(1964), and to later works such as \u003ci\u003eNear the Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e(1969) and his contributions of adaptations from the Russian of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam collected in Olga Carlisle's anthology, \u003ci\u003ePoets on Street Corners\u003c\/i\u003e (1967). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimon van Schalkwyk excavates the imitational substrate undergirding and informing Lowell's compositional method and poetic imagination throughout the course of his career. In so doing, he shows how imitation enacts, at the level of form, Lowell's restless investment in Cold War geopolitics and literary networks in ways that inform, develop, and complicate his more conventional canonization as an unquestionably 'American' poet preoccupied solely and simplistically with personal or autobiographical modes of poetic 'confession'. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs literary sites at which containment's dualities, porosities, leakages, and contaminants are most clearly displayed, Lowell's imitations simultaneously challenge and develop our understanding of confession's presumably strict preoccupation with the personal, regional and national frameworks through which Lowell has commonly been understood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon van Schalkwyk\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer of English Studies at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and formerly Visiting Researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER). He is co-editor for \u003ci\u003eSafundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e and academic editor for the \u003ci\u003eJohannesburg Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and he has published a collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eTranscontinental Delay \u003c\/i\u003e(2021).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51734970859794,"sku":"9798765132555","price":131.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2c7cfed9-660a-4991-a995-7c0c36dddbb1.jpg?v=1763492019","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/robert-lowells-imitations-and-the-cold-war-containment-leakage-anarchy-9798765132555","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}