| Ezra Pound in the Present: Essays on Pound's Contemporaneity Contributor(s): Stasi, Paul (Editor), Park, Josephine (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1501341782 ISBN-13: 9781501341786 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $47.47 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 272 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Was Ezra Pound the first theorist of world literature? Or did he inaugurate a form of comparative literature that could save the discipline from its untimely demise? Would he have welcomed the 2008 financial crisis? What might he say about America's economic dependence on China? Would he have been appalled at the rise of the "digital humanities," or found it amenable to his own quasi-social scientific views about the role of literature in society? What, if anything, would he find to value in today's economic and aesthetic discourses? Ezra Pound in the Present collects new essays by prominent scholars of modernist poetics to engage the relevance of Pound's work for our times, testing whether his literature was, as he hoped it would be, "news that stays news." |
Contributor Bio(s): Stasi, Paul: - Paul Stasi is Associate Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, USA. He is the author of Modernism, Imperialism and the Historical Sense (2012), as well as essays on T.S. Eliot, Richard Flannagan, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Jean Toomer.Park, Josephine: - Josephine Park is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics (2008). |
