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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458559003321

Autore

Sherry Vincent B

Titolo

Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and radical modernism [[electronic resource] /] / Vincent Sherry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New york, : Oxford University Press, 1993

ISBN

1-280-44256-5

1-4237-6480-3

0-19-536031-1

1-60129-895-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/358/0904

Soggetti

Radicalism in literature

Fascism and literature

Modernism (Literature)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; 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; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

This study examines the relation between the aesthetic convictions and political opinions of the Anglo-American modernists, focusing on the collaboration between Pound and Lewis. It attempts to account for their parallel movements towards the parties of European fascism.