Ezra Pound, Popular Genres, and the Discourse of Culture - Couverture rigide

Coyle, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0271014210 ISBN 13 : 9780271014210

Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995

Synopsis

In 1917, having begun the long poem that would prove his life's work, Ezra Pound affirmed that "the ultimate goal of scholarship is popularization." Few scholars subsequently have noticed this aim without finding it merely ironic or dismissing it as an early foible. Yet, as Michael Coyle demonstrates, Pound made similar assertions throughout his career, and his affirmation informs most of his work, including the Cantos.

Coyle begins by examining T. S. Eliot's editorial work on the collection he called, over Pound's objections, Literary Essays of Ezra Pound. He then discusses a wide variety of discursive and generic combinations, explaining how Pound was led to attempt them and how those combinations affected his broadest ambitions. By establishing that literature itself is a historically privileged grouping of genres, Coyle makes possible a new understanding of how and why Pound mixed literary and nonliterary, popular and polite genres.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Coyle is Associate Professor of English at Colgate University. He is the author of A Reception History of Ezra Pound (forthcoming).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0271014210
• ISBN 13: 9780271014210
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 268
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