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...Frances Dickey Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism , by Beasley Rebecca , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2007 . 221 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2008 Ezra Pound and the Ideology of Art Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism by Rebecca...

...Jason M. Coats Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 w “Part of the War Waste”: Pound, Imagism, and Rhetorical Excess Jason M. Coats In Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935), Pound asserts that “London stank of decay back before 1914 and I have recorded the feel of it in a poem here...

...Leon Surette Ezra Pound: Poet. A Portrait of the Man and His Work. Volume 1: The Young Genius 1885–1920 , by Moody A. David , Oxford : The Clarendon Press , 2007 . 507 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Saving Appearances: Another Ezra Pound Biography Ezra Pound: Poet...

...Michael Coyle The Modern Portrait Poem: From Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ezra Pound , by Dickey Frances , University of Virginia Press , 2012 . 260 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Review Reviews The Modern Portrait Poem: From Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ezra Pound...

... soldier. In Chapter 4, “T. S. Eliot: 1910–1922,” Sherry makes a bold claim about Pound and Eliot that reverses the conventional wisdom that they outgrew decadent writing. Instead, he asserts “as strongly as possible that they matured into this sensibility” (235) and that they did so because...

...Fiona Green This article focuses on the poems Marianne Moore wrote during and between visits to Virginia in the mid-1930s that were published in The Pangolin and Other Verse (1936). Prompted by an exchange of letters between Moore and Ezra Pound in 1935, the essay considers relationships between...

...Angus Fletcher Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 m Ezra Pound’s Egypt and the Origin of the Cantos Angus Fletcher A t the origin of the Cantos lies a puzzle that no one has ever attempt­ ed to solve: Ezra Pound’s sudden loss of interest in Egypt. Egypt pos­...

...Catherine E. Paul Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 41 Italian Fascist Exhibitions and Ezra Pound’s Move to the Imperial Catherine E. Paul In or about May 1936, Ezra Pound’s method for teaching neophytes about culture changed. During the 1930s, he had become increasingly...

...Chris Hall This article reads modernist animals against the dominating strategies of fascist racism, examining the hierarchization of bodies along the human/nonhuman divide in Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos and Virginia Woolf’s Flush and how the animals in both works challenge the integrity of the human...

...Steven Yao Ezra Pound and African-American Modernism , edited by Coyle Michael , Orono, Maine : National Poetry Foundation , 2001 . 272 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 Steven Yao reason to come into being. It has been a great pleasure for us, in the brief time...

...Lucas Klein Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel , by Hayot Eric , Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2004 . 220 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 Translating the Dreamers of China Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel by Eric Hayot Ann Arbor...

... Williams Nearly ten years ago, in the introduction to his seminal study Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel, Eric Hayot noted—with some skepti- cism—the ongoing, institutional success of East/West comparativism in literary studies. “Pound and China” had become its own cottage industry, Hayot...

... sublimity. Such a conviction, as Zhaoming Qian suggests in his new book, influenced the American poets Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens, not only inspir­ ing their creative practices but also constituting the key to an important aspect of American literary modernism that Qian calls...

... of such modernists as Louis-Ferdinand Ce­ line, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis would suggest, especially lend itself to culturally or politically retrograde projects? The political implications of any particular specimen of modernist or postmodernist writing, DuPlessis argues, cannot...

..., with a provocative new manifesto appearing in the American literary journal the Forum . Titled “The Spectric School of Poetry” and authored by Knish and Morgan, the essay opened by attacking Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis’s recent Vorticist departure in no uncertain terms: “The Vorticist School of poetry died...

... man, it is in this mode of writing that H.D.’s feminism chiefly resides. Criticism on H.D. often suggests that, especially insofar as she writes the female body, her work necessarily differs from, even opposes, the work of male modernist contemporaries like Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis...

..., in their modernist collusion. Ultimately, their competitive pilfering serves to illuminate one of modernism’s gen­ eral anxieties, reflected in Pound’s claim that “there is nothing that’s quite your own” (“Portrait” 58 § Marsden’s status in literary modernism remains ambiguous. While her role...

... with a chapter devoted to the modernist poets whose work shapes postwar poetry’s handling of economic matters. Ezra Pound and W. H. Auden respond to the catastrophes of the early and mid-twentieth century by developing two different models. The former creates a “humanist writing-as-pedagogy retooled...

...] Pound’s conviction that new forms were needed for the new times, did not include the con- temporary world in her Imagist poetry. She did not observe the superficialities of social life, as Pound did, or, with few excep- tions, take up urban themes, as Eliot did. The environment...

... into the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky, who faced the firing squad for supposedly joining an underground organization, then had his sentence commuted to hard labor in a Siberian prison camp. Or, from across the political divide, there is Coetzee’s interest in the case of Ezra Pound, in- carcerated first...