The birth of modernism : Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and the occult / / Leon Surette

• Autore: Surette Leon
• Pubblicazione: Montréal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 320 pages)
• Disciplina: 821/.912091
• Soggetto topico: Modernism (Literature) - Europe; European literature - 20th century - History and criticism; European literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Theosophy in literature; Occultism in literature
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-305) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Discovering the Past -- The Occult Tradition in The Cantos -- Nietzsche, Wagner, and Myth -- Pound’s Editing of The Waste Land -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: While W.B. Yeats' occultism has long been acknowledged, Surette is the first to show that Ezra Pound's early intimacy with Yeats was based largely on a shared interest in the occult, and that Pound's The Cantos is a deeply occult work. Surette argues that Pound's editing of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land was not motivated primarily by stylistic concerns, as has generally been contended by the New Critics, but by thematic considerations. In fact, it was precisely because Eliot knew Pound to be well informed about the occult that he asked for Pound's assistance with The Waste Land.
• Titolo autorizzato: The birth of modernism
• ISBN: 1-282-85625-1; 9786612856259; 0-7735-6377-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782081203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II