Poetics of Loss in the Cantos of Ezra Pound: From Modernism to FascismThis book examines how the modernist poetics exemplified in Ezra Pound's epic poem "The Cantos" are unavoidably bound-in with the ideological forces underpinning his advocacy of fascism. Overall it argues that Pound's reactionary urge to redefine a lost culture, coupled with his sense of textual annihilation of a validating poetic centre, is the cultural ground on which his ideal of fascist republic rests. |
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Contents
Introduction That I Lost My Center | 1 |
Fragments against Ruin The Malatesta Cantos | 11 |
Historical Exempla hi The China | 47 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Poetics of Loss in the Cantos of Ezra Pound: From Modernism to Fascism Volume 98 of Studies in British Literature |
| Author | Nick Selby |
| Publisher | E. Mellen Press, 2005 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0773460551, 9780773460553 |
| Length | 271 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / American / General |
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