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"Ego, scriptor cantilenae": The Cantos and Ezra Pound
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Ezra Pound and the rhetoric of science, 1901-1922
This thesis identifies science as Ezra Pound’s first extended extra-poetic interest. This reference to science in Pound’s poetic theory and poetry is portrayed as rhetoric, with its emphasis on the linguistic signifier or word rather than the actual concepts and data of science. The material covers …
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The Canto of Ezra Pound as a Process Model
<p>The discipline of the scientific method has directed human thinking and learning not only in what are called the hard sciences,, but also, particularly within the last century, in the less predictable areas of human understanding and behavior. For scientific study of such fields, human …
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Aphrodite as Acorn: Method and Message in the Cantos of Ezra Pound
… of the goddess Aphrodite in The Cantos of Ezra Pound mark the most beautiful passages of the poem. Both enchanted and challenged, I begin this paper. I will do three things.</p> <p>First, I will survey the critical work on the role of Aphrodite written over the last twenty years. …
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LINES THAT BIND: DISABILITY’S PLACE IN THE MODERNIST WRITINGS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER, AMY LOWELL, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND EZRA POUND
… Hughes, William Faulkner, Amy Lowell, and Ezra Pound at a time when eugenics' insistence on a superior and uniform humanity dominated social thought and how their writings complicate generalized conclusions espousing ablist tendencies in modernist literature, demonstrating that such …
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Carnivalized narratives in the postmodern long poem
… twentieth-century. Writers such as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams have pursued the long poem, but under the auspices of the "modern epic." Three postmodern long poems---Kenneth Koch's Seasons on Earth, Edward Dom's Gunslinger, and James Merrill's The Changing Light at …
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Self-Referential Anxiety in the Romantic and Modern Long Poem
… as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Browning, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Berryman. In works by each of these poets, the author's insecurities about the poem's form and subject matter and about the appropriate role of the poet are articulated through the character of the …
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The Modernist Defense of Poetry in Prose and Verse
… a centuries-old genre that shapes the verse of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams. Arguments from the defense of poetry become models for the imagery in their poems and for their own poetic voices. These arguments include defending poiesis as the ennobling …
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Engaging aesthetics: American poetry and politics, 1925-1950
… poets I discuss--Edwin Rolfe, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, and Muriel Rukeyser--represent a range of attitudes toward poetry, politics, and the relationship between the two. My approach addresses a set of broad theoretical issues: the relationship between the categories of the aesthetic and the …
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Yiddish and the Avant-Garde in American Jewish Poetry
… his own English epic, written in dialogue with Ezra Pound. It concludes with an examination of the Language poets of the 1970s, particularly Charles Bernstein's experimental verse, which explores the way that language shapes consciousness through the use of critical and linguistic discourse. …
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Lines of Feeling: Modernist Women's Poetry and the Limits of Sentimentality
… of poetic modernism. Poets like T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and H.D. are routinely credited with formal theories of poetic innovation. In stark contrast, the so-called “sentimental” poets who comprise this study, figures such as Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sara Teasdale, Genevieve Taggard, and …
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"The Fact of God": Form and Belief in British Modernist Poetry
… works of British modernist poets W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, T.S. Eliot, Basil Bunting, Philip Larkin, and Thom Gunn. Moving from Celtic mythos to Buddhist philosophy, Anglo-Catholic prayer to ancient Greek burial rites, I argue that spirituality and poetic experimentation were …
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"an identification and a plan for action to supplant a plan for action": EPIC Conventions Transformed in Williams, Zukofsky, and Olson
… are all, in their own ways, disciples of the Ezra Pound model of the epic, which is embodied in his most important work, The Cantos. Each of these authors, though, looks back further than Pound alone, reconfiguring conventions dating back to the earliest epics. Each puts a unique stamp on …
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Kindness in Modernist American Poetry
… selections from the works of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen and Charles Reznikoff. Working within an understanding that no interpretation can be naïve, this thesis argues a case for Kindness as a “grammar of reading” that accounts for the …
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Literature in the age of mathematics: Gender and the multiplicity of modernity
… Though it appears that writers such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis deploy mathematical metaphors to reinforce the qualities of abstraction, objectivity, and detachment typically associated with modernist writing, I argue instead that mathematics offers …
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Literature in the age of mathematics: Gender and the multiplicity of modernity
… Though it appears that writers such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis deploy mathematical metaphors to reinforce the qualities of abstraction, objectivity, and detachment typically associated with modernist writing, I argue instead that mathematics offers …
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