Learning to be Modern: Pound, Eliot and the American University

Book is in excellent condition. 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, no tears. 241 pages. It is axiomatic that the poetry of high modernism was composed by the educated for the educated. Learning to be Modern explores American educational history as a context of this commonplace: what Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot learned in universities, how these poets needed universities, and how universities needed them. McDonald examines crucial unpublished essays as well as more familiar works by Pound and Eliot on educational topics. She also reveals the vast amount of time they devoted to pedagogical concerns, emulating and assisting the American academy's evolution from nineteenth-century religious college to twentieth-century research university. This process demanded a continuous calibration of the relationship between tradition and innovation which resulted in a curious doubleness within high modernist aesthetics and American educational philosophy--a doubleness which is echoed in the contradictions of poetry by Pound and Eliot. In addition to new readings of Pound and Eliot, this book presents a fresh way of thinking about high modernist literature at large and, in its examination of turn-of-the-century debates on educational progressivism, provides a historical context for current debates about the function of universities and the shape of the literary canon.

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ISBN: 0198119801

ISBN-13: 9780198119807

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Year: 1993

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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