Ezra Pound

Author: I. Nadel
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230378811
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
Drawing on a series of new sources, this biography of Ezra Pound - the first to appear in more than a decade - outlines his contribution to modernism through a detailed account of his development, influence and continued significance. It pays special attention to his role in creating Imagism, Vorticism and the modern long poem, as well as his importance for Yeats, Joyce and Eliot. His roles as editor, translator and critic, plus his attempt to complete The Cantos , are also studied.

Ezra Pound in Context

Author: Ira B. Nadel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139492675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 531

Book Description
Long at the centre of the modernist project, from editing Eliot's The Waste Land to publishing Joyce, Pound has also been a provocateur and instigator of new movements, while initiating a new poetics. This is the first volume to summarize and analyze the multiple contexts of Pound's work, underlining the magnitude of his contribution and drawing on new archival, textual and theoretical studies. Pound's political and economic ideas also receive attention. With its concentration on the contexts of history, sociology, aesthetics and politics, the volume will provide a portrait of Pound's unusually international reach: an American-born, modern poet absorbing the cultures of England, France, Italy and China. These essays situate Pound in the social and material realities of his time and will be invaluable for students and scholars of Pound and modernism.

Review of Contemporary Fiction

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 966

Book Description

Interviews with Spanish Writers

Author: Marie-Lise Gazarian Gautier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916583811
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description

Contemporary Authors

Author: Terrie M. Rooney
Publisher: Contemporary Authors
ISBN: 9780787632403
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 476

Book Description
Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors®. Authors in this volume include: Catherine Obianuju Acholonu Tony Bennett Gail Susan Buckland Henry Cabot Lodge

A Selected Catalog of the Ezra Pound Collection at Hamilton College

Author: Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.). Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater

Author: Fran Mason
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442276207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 587

Book Description
The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writing. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the postmodernist literature and theater.

Poundemonium

Author: Julián Ríos
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 164

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To Be Continued

Author: Hope Apple
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313095981
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
Keeping track of prolific authors who write fiction series was quite challenging for even the most ardent fan until To Be Continueddebuted in 1995. Noew, readers will be happy that the soon-to-be-released second edition has added 1,600 new books and 400 new series. To Be Continued, Second Edition, maintians the first volume's successful formula that featured concise A-to-Z entries packed with useful information, including titles, publishers, publication dates, genre categories, annotations, and subject terms. Among the genre categories that can be found in To Be Continued are romance, science fiction, crime novel, horror, adventure, fantasy, humor, western, war, Christian fiction, and others.

The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater

Author: Fran Mason
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810868555
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
"The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater examines the different areas of postmodernist literature and theater and the variety of forms that have been produced. It contains a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual writers, important aesthetic practices, significant texts, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. By placing these concerns within the historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts of postmodernism, this reference explores the frameworks within which postmodernist literature of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries operates." --Book Jacket.