Radio Corpse Imagism and the Cryptaesthetic of Ezra Pound |
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| Author:
| Tiffany, Daniel |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-74662-6 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1998 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $102.00 |
Book Description:
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Focusing on the necrophilic dimension of Pound's poetry and the inflections of materiality enabled by the modernist image, Tiffany finds a continuum between Decadent practice and the avant-garde, between the image's prehistory and its political afterlife, between the "corpse language" of Victorian poetry and a conception of the "radioactive" image
Focusing on the necrophilic dimension of Pound's poetry and the inflections of materiality enabled by the modernist image, Tiffany finds a continuum between Decadent practice and the avant-garde, between the image's prehistory and its political afterlife, between the "corpse language" of Victorian poetry and a conception of the "radioactive" image