| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 290 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Jeffersonian economics: debt and the production of value -- Three aspects of the Jeffersonian political aesthetic -- The virtues of distribution: a genealogy of Poundian economics -- Fertility rites/financial rites: Pound, Williams, and the political economy of sex -- Poesis versus production: the economic defense of poetry in the age of corporate capitalism -- Dewey, Williams, and the pragmatic poem -- Overcoming modernity: representing the corporation and the promise of pluralism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Marsh locates Pound and Williams firmly in the Jeffersonian tradition and examines their epic poems as manifestations of a Jeffersonian ideology in modernist terms. The modernist poets William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound were latter-day Jeffersonians whose politics and poetry were strongly marked by the populism of the late 19th century. They were sharply aware of the social contradictions of modernization and were committed to a highly politicized, often polemical poetry that criticized finance capitalism and its institutions--not |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Political and social views
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Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 -- Political and social views
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Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 -- Knowledge -- Economics
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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Knowledge -- Economics
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 fast |
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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 fast |
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Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 fast |
| Subject |
Capitalism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States
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Economics in literature.
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Money in literature.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American poetry
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Capitalism and literature
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Economics
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Economics in literature
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Modernism (Literature)
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Money in literature
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Political and social views
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
97045459 |
| ISBN |
9780817386023 |
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0817386025 |
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9780817309213 |
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0817309217 |
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