UID:
almahu_9947414130502882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 290 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511570520 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 69
Content:
In The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson, Cary Wolfe analyses the dynamics and consequences of radical individualism and the sort of cultural critique it generates in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ezra Pound. The main purpose of the book is to demonstrate that any form of individualism that is modelled on the logic and structure of private property will always reproduce the very contradictions and alienations that it set out to criticise and to remedy. Part of what makes this study unique and important is that it uses the ideology of individualism, still so powerful and seductive in contemporary America, to build a bridge between the two major figures from literary periods – Modernism and American Romanticism – which are often seen in stark opposition. In doing so, this study extends the critical paradigms and techniques of one of the most exciting new fields of cultural criticism (the so-called 'New Americanist' criticism) to cover a period (Modernism) and a type of writing (poetry) that it has largely ignored.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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1. A Politics of Difference. Emerson, Pound, and the Jameses. "Robert Frost (Two Reviews)" In Defense of "Whim" -- 2. Critiques of Capitalist (Literary) Production. Death by Reproduction: Pound's Critique of the Literary Market. Imagism -- 3. Economies of Individualism. "Living Property": Emerson, Entrepreneurs, and the Jacksonian "Mob" "The Truth Is the Individual": Pound, Entrepreneurs, and the Limits of "Experience" "A Pact" -- 4. "Gynocracy" and "Red Blood": Pound and the Politics of Feminization. "Portrait d'une Femme" Borrowed Ladies and Broken Mirrors: "Near Perigord" Inventor or Conservator? Pound's Essentialism. The Self That One Is Not: Pound and the Gender System -- 5. Visionary Capital: Contradictions of Pound's Lyric ideal. From the Color, the Sign: The Poetics of Authority. The Politics of Patronage -- 6. Ideologies of the Organic. Nature and Value in Pound's Economics. One Way: The Seven Lakes Canto and Others. Visions of China, Versions of Populism.
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Ideology and Incoherence in The Pisan Cantos -- 7. Signs That Bind: Ideology and Form in Pound's Poetics. Didacticism and the Logic of the Ideogram. The Cantos and the Politics of Genre.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521445559
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511570520
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