Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and radical modernism / Vincent Sherry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sherry, Vincent B., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Radicalism in literature.

Fascism and literature.

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Criticism and interpretation.

Pound, Ezra.

Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957--Criticism and interpretation.

Lewis, Wyndham.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1993.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772406-X

1-280-44256-5

1-4237-6480-3

0-19-536031-1

1-60129-895-1

OCLC:

191938575