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C. D. BlantonAssociate Professor; Chair, Program in Critical Theory Wheeler Hall, room 437 cdblanton@berkeley.edu Books
Books: Epic Negation: The Dialectical Poetics of Late Modernism (Oxford University Press, 2015). Aftereffects: Late Capital, Late Style. (In progress) Modernism's Metaphysics: In Search of Absent Causes. (In progress)
Edited volumes: Financialization and the Culture Industry, ed. C. D. Blanton, Colleen Lye, and Kent Puckett; Representations 126 (Spring 2014): 160 pp. A Concise Companion to Post-War British and Irish Poetry, ed. Nigel Alderman and C. D. Blanton (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), xxviii + 298 pp. Pocket Epics: British Poetry After Modernism, ed. Nigel Alderman and C. D. Blanton; The Yale Journal of Criticism 13:1 (Spring 2000): 208 pp.
Essays: "Eliot's Political Theology," forthcoming. “Judgment and Social Being: Notes on Teleological Positing,” South Atlantic Quarterly 119:4 (October 2020): 725-34. "Ezra Pound's Effective Demand: Keynes, Causality, and The Cantos," in Ezra Pound in the Present, ed. Josephine Park and Paul Stasi (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), 201-31. "Modernism and Reification: Lukács, Benjamin, Adorno," in The Cambridge History of Modernism, ed. Vincent Sherry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 802-19. "Abstract in Concrete: Brutalism and the Modernist Half-Life," in The Contemporaneity of Modernism, ed. Michael D'Arcy and Mathias Nilges (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016), 17-30. "Theory by Analogy," PMLA 130:3 (May 2015): 1-16. "The Last Romantics?" in The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010, ed. Edward Larrissy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 10-24. "Reoccupying Metaphor: On the Legitimacy of the Nonconceptual," New Encounters between Literature and Philosophy, ed. Krzysztof Ziarek, Humanities. "Form, Figure, and Ground: Auden and England after Modernism," in The Blackwell Companion to British Literature, Volume IV: Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature, ed. Robert DeMaria, Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher (Oxford: Blackwell, 2013), 296-313. “London,” in T. S. Eliot in Context, ed. Jason Harding (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 33-42. “Medieval Currencies: Nominalism and Art,” in The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages: On the Unwritten History of Theory, ed. Andrew Cole and D. Vance Smith (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010), 194-232. “Transatlantic Crossings,” in A Concise Companion to Post-War British and Irish Poetry, ed. Nigel Alderman and C. D. Blanton (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), 134-154. “Arnold’s Arrhythmia,” Studies in English Literature 48:4 (Autumn 2008): 755-767. [Reprinted: Victorian Hybridities: Cultural Anxiety and Formal Innovation, ed. U. C. Knoepflmacher and Logan D. Browning (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), 13-25.] “Invisible Times: Modernism as Ruptural Unity,” in Modernism and Theory, ed. Stephen Ross (London: Routledge, 2008), 137-152. “The Politics of Epochality: Antinomies of Original Sin,” in T. E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism, ed. Edward P. Comentale and Andrzej Gasiorek (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2006), 187-208. “Impostures: Robert Browning and the Poetics of Forgery,” Studies in the Literary Imagination 35:2 (Fall 2002): 1-25. “Nominal Devolutions: Poetic Substance and the Critique of Political Economy,” The Yale Journal of Criticism 13:1 (Spring 2000): 129-152.
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