Epic Reinvented : Ezra Pound and the Victorians / Mary Ellis Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Mary Ellis, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry & Criticism.

Local Subjects:

Poetry & Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Epic Reinvented, Mary Ellis Gibson examines Ezra Pound's Cantos to trace connections between his aesthetics and his politics. She treats little-known and unpublished writings, including many early poems. One substantial poem, "In Praise of the Masters," appears here in print for the first time. Discussing Pound's relationship to his Victorian predecessors, particularly Robert Browning and nineteenth-century historians, Gibson demonstrates how Pound's attempt to write a post-Romantic epic both confronted questions of genre and social order and led to the unpredictabilities of his politics. She develops a rhetorical tropology to account for the formal and cultural dimensions of Pound's contradictions. Exploring fin-de-siècle publishing, Gibson investigates how Pound's utopian political vision was rooted in nineteenth-century and fascist ideologies of gender. Violence is implicit in both. For Gibson, the aesthetic Pound and the political Pound, Pound the visionary and Pound the historian, are one.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

A Note on Texts

Abbreviations for Works of Ezra Pound

Chapter 1. Pound's Nineteenth-Century Canon: Historicism, Aestheticism, and the Prose Tradition in Verse

Chapter 2. Poet as Ragpicker: Browning in Pound's Early Poetry

Chapter 3. Browning in the Early Cantos: Irony versus Epic

Chapter 4. Between Metonymy and Metaphor: Tropological Rhetoric and The Cantos

Chapter 5. The Modernist Sage: Poetry, Politics, and Prophecy

Chapter 6. Doubled Feminine: A Painted Paradise at the End of It

Chapter 7. Postromantic Epic in the Bone Shop of History

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3541-1

OCLC:

1178768835