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Consumption and Depression in Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukofsky, and Ezra Pound
Luke Carson
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Description for Consumption and Depression in Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukofsky, and Ezra Pound
Hardcover. By contrasting Pound's political values with those of Stein and Zukofsky, this study argues that these three different writers share a complex set of attitudes that are grounded in a collective social fantasy corresponding to the rise of mass consumption and the emergence of corporate social forms. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
The career of Ezra Pound has come to represent the political tendencies which, it has been claimed, are inherent to modernist aesthetics. But the political impulses of the modernists cannot be adequately represented by Pound's extreme positions; Pound's own political activities and commitments, in fact, do not adequately articulate the contradictory attitudes and beliefs that made them possible. By contrasting Pound's politics to the political values and beliefs of Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky during the Depression, this book argues that these three very different writers share a complex set of attitudes and beliefs that are grounded in a collective ... Read more
The career of Ezra Pound has come to represent the political tendencies which, it has been claimed, are inherent to modernist aesthetics. But the political impulses of the modernists cannot be adequately represented by Pound's extreme positions; Pound's own political activities and commitments, in fact, do not adequately articulate the contradictory attitudes and beliefs that made them possible. By contrasting Pound's politics to the political values and beliefs of Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky during the Depression, this book argues that these three very different writers share a complex set of attitudes and beliefs that are grounded in a collective ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
283
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333714515
SKU
V9780333714515
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About Luke Carson
Luke Carson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria.
Reviews for Consumption and Depression in Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukofsky, and Ezra Pound
The tightly focused and often elegant work is essential reading for anyone concerned with the intellectual culture of the Depression and the influence of economic philosophy on the formation and diversity of modernist poetics. Modernism/ Modernity