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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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ILLUSTRATIONS -- Prologue -- 1 From the Continent to England, 1889-1925 -- Musical Empathy -- Political Aesthetics -- European Vortex -- This Hulme Business -- 2 Ezra Pound, 1908-1920 -- Negotiations -- Early Cantos: Auditing the Tradition -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -- 3 Wyndham Lewis: L'Entre Deux Guerres -- Untuning the Word -- The Failure of Art -- The Art of Failure -- 4 Ezra Pound, 1921-1939 -- Resuming the Cantos: Eliot, Dada, Major Form -- Making Friends with the Enemy -- States of Excess -- Epilogue -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K |
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| Summary |
Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis developed a highly experimental art; they were attracted simultaneously to political programs remarkably backward in outlook--the autocracies of Fascist Italy and Germany. That paradox, central to the problematic achievement of Anglo-American modernism, is freshlyaddressed in this study. Here Sherry examines the influence of music and painting on literature, presents original research on European intellectual history, and proposes a new understanding of ideology as a force in the literary imagination. Following the example of continental ideologues, theEnglish mode |
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Print version record |
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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957 fast |
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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 fast |
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Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States
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Radicalism in literature.
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Fascism and literature.
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Fascism and literature
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Modernism (Literature)
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Radicalism in literature
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Great Britain
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780195360318 |
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0195360311 |
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