Hart Crane and the Modernist Epic: Canon and Genre Formation in Crane, Pound, Eliot, and Williams

by Daniel Gabriel

This study examines Hart Crane's canonical ambitions in The Bridge and argues for a new species of epic, 'the modernist epic, ' which also includes Pound's The Cantos, Eliot's The Waste Land, and Williams's Paterson. It offers a close reading of The Bridge as a hybrid of lyric and epic modes. Crane's sublime and history converge in a complex synthesis of form and ideas. The study reconceives Crane's achievement by locating him in an intertextual system...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403974454
• ISBN13: 9781403974457
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"