Reading Pound Reading: Modernism After Neitzsche

Book is in excellent condition in purple heavy weave cloth HB covers, gilt print at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, some scuffing, no tears.

From Publisher:

This book examines Ezra Pound's own critical writing in an effort to establish its links both to 19th-century thought and to modern critical movements ranging from New Criticism to post-structuralism. In Reading Pound Reading, Kathryne Lindberg argues that traditional Modernist views of Pound held by the literary academy fail to describe the work of a writer who defied all literary boundaries--including the literary practices and tenets of "modernism." Because Pound had no coherent aesthetics--he read against ideas and opposed generalizations--he adapted reading strategies from discourses as varied as philosophy, anthropology, sinology, entymology, physics, and politics. Through a careful analysis of Pound's often forgotten literary and cultural criticism, Lindberg reveals the elements it shares with certain Nietzschean habits of reading, and uncovers surprising links with such unlikely accomplices as Emerson, Whitman, Williams, and Charles Olson. Under this scrutiny, Pound's cultural criticism yields a kind of reading that is at once avant-garde, neo-Nietzschean, and undeniably American.

Product Info

ISBN: 0195041658

ISBN-13: 9780195041651

Publisher: Oxford

Year: 1987

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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