TY - BOOK AU - Willmott,Glenn TI - Modernist Goods: Primitivism, the Market and the Gift SN - 9780802097699 AV - PR478.M6 W53 2008eb U1 - 820.9/112 22 PY - 2008///] CY - Toronto : PB - University of Toronto Press, KW - Capitalism and literature KW - Economics and literature KW - English literature KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Literature and anthropology KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Politics and literature KW - Primitivism KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh N1 - restricted access N2 - The politicised interpretation of literature has relied on models of economic and social structures that oscillate between idealized subversion and market fatalism. Current anthropological discussions of mixed gift and commodity economies and the segmented politics of house societies offer solutions to this problem and suggest invaluable new directions for literary studies. Modernist Goods uses recent discussions of gift and house practices to counter an influential revisionist trend in modernist studies, a trend that sees the capitalist marketplace and its public sphere as the uniquely determining institutional structures in modern arts and culture.Glenn Willmott argues that a political unconscious forged by the widespread marginalisation of pre-capitalist institutions comes to the fore in modernist primitivism. Such primitivism, he insists, is not superficially exoticist or simply appropriative of the cultural heritage of others. Rather, it is at once parodic and authentic, and often, in the language of Julia Kristeva, abject. Modernist Goods examines such writers as Yeats, Conrad, Eliot, Woolf, Beckett, H.D., and Joyce to uncover what the author views as their displaced aboriginality and to investigate the relationship between literary modernism and aboriginal modernity. By bringing current anthropological developments to literary studies, it aims to rethink the economic commitments of modernist literature and their political significance UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442688643 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442688643/original ER -