Long at the centre of the modernist project, from editing Eliot's The Waste Land to publishing Joyce, Pound has also been a provocateur and instigator of new movements, while initiating a new poetics. This is the first volume to summarize and analyze the multiple contexts of Pound's work, underlining the magnitude of his contribution and drawing on new archival, textual and theoretical studies. Pound's political and economic ideas also receive attention. With its concentration on the contexts of history, sociology, aesthetics and politics, the volume will provide a portrait of Pound's unusually international reach: an American-born, modern poet absorbing the cultures of England, France, Italy and China. These essays situate Pound in the social and material realities of his time and will be invaluable for students and scholars of Pound and modernism.
| ISBN: | 9781107428911 |
| Publication date: | 17th December 2015 |
| Author: | Ira B University of British Columbia, Vancouver Nadel |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 530 pages |
| Series: | Literature in Context |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
Long at the centre of the modernist project, from editing Eliot's The Waste Land to publishing Joyce, Pound has also been a provocateur and instigator of new movements, while initiating a new poetics. This is the first volume to summarize and analyze the multiple contexts of Pound's work, underlining the magnitude of his contribution and drawing on new archival, textual and theoretical studies. Pound's political and economic ideas also receive attention. With its concentration on the contexts of history, sociology, aesthetics and politics, the volume will provide a portrait of Pound's unusually international reach: an American-born, modern poet absorbing the cultures of England, France, Italy and China. These essays situate Pound in the social and material realities of his time and will be invaluable for students and scholars of Pound and modernism.
Ezra Pound in Context features in the following genres: Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Ezra Pound in Context is available in Paperback, Hardback
Ezra Pound in Context was written by Ira B University of British Columbia, Vancouver Nadel and published by Cambridge University Press
Ezra Pound in Context has 530 pages
Yes it is part of Literature in Context series
£41.40