Consumption and Depression in Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukofsky and Ezra Pound

by Luke Carson

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 do not adequately articulate the contradictory attitudes and beliefs that made them possible. By contrasting Pound's politics to the political values and beliefs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312216629
• ISBN13: 9780312216627
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.8"