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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Coyle, Michael, 1957- Ezra Pound, popular genres, and the discourse of culture. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1995 (OCoLC)623488992 |
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| Named Person: | Ezra Pound; Ezra Pound; Ezra Pound; Ezra Pound; Pound, Ezra <1885-1972> - Critique et interprétation. |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Coyle |
| ISBN: | 0271014210 9780271014210 |
| OCLC Number: | 31078841 |
| Description: | x, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The Frontiers of Criticism and the Circumscription of Ol' Ez -- 2. "A Profounder Didacticism": Ruskin, Orage, and Pound's Vision of Cultural Totality -- 3. Epic Inclusiveness and the Innovations of Eleven New Cantos -- 4. Popularizing Primers and the Discourse of Culture -- 5. Unpacking Munch's Satchel: Musical Notation and the Defiance of Pisan Cantos -- 6. "These are the Histories, OR": Narrative in the Benton Cantos of Section: Rock-Drill -- 7. "Nummulary Moving Toward Prosody": The Del Mar Cantos of Thrones -- 8. E Basta. |
| Responsibility: | Michael Coyle. |
Abstract:
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.
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- Pound, Ezra, -- 1885-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Popular culture in literature.
- Language and culture.
- Literary form -- History -- 20th century.
- Pound, Ezra -- (1885-1972) -- Critique et interprétation.
- Pound, Ezra.
- Literaturgattung.
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- Pound, Ezra <1885-1972> - Critique et interprétation.
