...Wai Chee Dimock Duke University 2004 Wai Chee Aesthetics at the Limits of the Nation: Dimock Kant, Pound, and the Saturday Review How powerful is the nation as a taxonomic (rather thanjurisdictional)unit?Whogetstoclassify,whogetstonamethe phenomena of the...

... . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2012 . 292 pp. $99.00 . On the Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics . By Davidson Michael . Middletown, CT : Wesleyan Univ. Press . 2011 . 344 pp. Cloth , $80.00 ; paper , $27.95 ; e-book , $21.99 . Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot...

...Sharon Stockton Duke University Press 2000 Sharon Engineering Power: Hoover, Rand, Pound, Stockton and the Heroic Architect 6218 American Literature 72:4 / sheet 123 of238 History generally credits the United States with...

...Rebecca Beasley Duke University Press 2002 Rebecca Ezra Pound’s Whistler Beasley On 20 February 1905, Walter Raleigh, Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, addressed the Interna- tional Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers who had...

... reading Ezra Pound’s Adams cantos? Did Muriel Rukeyser change labor and workers’ rights laws by publishing The Book of the Dead? Although Thurston allowsthatpoetry‘‘cannotdirectlyeffectchangeinhistory’’butactsinmedi...

... Pound and Rukeyser. It would have been helpful had he com- pared Pound with those leftist followers who also employed his techniques of quotation and fragmentation, such as Louis Zukofsky. When Thurston turns to...

... Pressman seeks to position today’s digital literature as a reappearance or renewal of the print-based modernism pioneered by Ezra Pound and James Joyce. The medium is digital, but these code-texts seek to adapt the aesthetic aims of high modernism: formal experimentation and a high degree of...

... appropriate questions regarding William Faulkner’s place in American literature, his location in literary studies, and his relation to United States culture Richard Godden, Noel Polk, Hortense Spillers, and Linda Wagner-Martin are among the contributors. Ezra Pound and African American Modernism. Ed...

... plot interacts with other textual elements such as agency, imagery, and narrative voice to create the implied author of the text. Concluding with a chapter on how humor and magic interact with plot to shape an ‘‘implied ‘FaulknerLabattadvisesreadersto‘‘trusttheplot,notthenarrator Ezra Pound and...

..., and people that influenced Jeffers, he also discusses his major books. John Kasper and Ezra Pound: Saving the Republic . By Alec Marsh. London: Bloomsbury. 2015. xvi, 301 pp. Cloth, $104.00; e-book, $77.99. Many biographers of Pound tend to pathologize the militant far-right activist Kasper...

... in little magazine Contact was particularly enlightening. While Williams is sometimes seen as uncritically emulating Pound’s Imagism and later, Vorticism, White’s research shows a much more complex evolution in Williams’s thinking about localism. Both Pound and Williams were deeply marked...

... continues to form “new filmic, historical, and political figurations” throughout the nation. The Pound Reaction: Liberalism and Lyricism in Midcentury American Literature . By Andrew S. Gross. Heidelberg, DE: Universitätsverlag. 2015. xviii, 262 pp. No price available. This work argues that the...

... Britannica . Perloff Marjorie . 2010 . Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . Pound Ezra . 1960 . Impact: Essays on Ignorance and the Decline of American Civilization . Edited by Stock Noel . Chicago : Henry Regnery...

.... Poetry, Politics, and Culture: Argument in the Work of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Wil- liams. By Harold Kaplan. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction. 2006. xi, 279 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $29.95. This comparative study sets the work of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams against that of Ezra...

... poetics, is greater than its poetics. Jennings in describing a poetics that is at once anticapitalist and adequate to its revolutionary period—of Depres- sion economics and Marxist exegesis—claims that the Objectivists in taking up the paratactic poetics initiated by Pound rework them so that they...

...- selves. From Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans and Wil- liam Carlos Williams’s Paterson to Hart Crane’s The Bridge,Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, and Marianne Moore’s ‘‘Virginia Britannia’’ and ‘‘Enough: Jamestown, 1607–1957 many modernists, both expatriate 522 American Literature and ‘‘homemade...

... key literary figures, including Henry James, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Wyndham Lewis, and Jack Spicer, to conceive of modern- ism as a “space of interference,” making the practice and trope of translation central to the movement’s dialectical, internationalist aesthetic. The author...

... poetic tech- niques that expanded and complicated the notion of authentic blackness, then turns to Hughes’s engagements with compromise in the 1940s and 1950s as his politics became less radical. 422  American Literature Ezra Pound’s Early Verse and Lyric Tradition: A Jargoner’s Apprenticeship...

...” (10). Chiasson acknowledges the fact that the “ambitious poetries of mod- ernism have all displayed a strongly antisubjective strain” and cites as examples George “Oppen’s minimalist gizmos” and Ezra Pound’s 860  American Literature dynastic imperative. I am not sure what a “minimalist...