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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791972703321

Autore

Marsh Alec <1953->

Titolo

Money and modernity [[electronic resource] ] : Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson / / by Alec Marsh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1998

ISBN

0-8173-8602-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Disciplina

811/.5209358

Soggetti

Capitalism and literature - United States - History - 20th century

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - United States

Economics in literature

Money in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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