The Pound EraUniv of California Press, 2023 M07 28 - 624 pages "Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era could as well be known as the Kenner era, for there is no critic who has more firmly established his claim to valuable literary property than has Kenner to the first three decades of the 20th century in England. Author of pervious studies of Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Pound (to name a few), Kenner bestrides modern literature if not like a colossus then at least a presence of formidable proportions. A new book by him is certainly an event....A demanding, enticing book that glitters at the same time it antagonizes...."The Pound Era presents us with an idiosyncratic but sharply etched skeletal view of our immediate literary heritage."—The New York Times This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973. "Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era could as well be known as the Kenner era, for there is no critic who has more firmly established his claim to valuable literary property than has Kenner to the first three decades of the 20th century in England. Author of perv |
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SpaceCraft | 23 |
Renaissance II | 32 |
The Muse in Tatters | 54 |
Motz el Son | 76 |
The Invention of Language | 94 |
Words Set Free | 121 |
Knot and Vortex | 145 |
Douglas | 301 |
The Sacred Places | 318 |
The CantosI | 349 |
O City City | 382 |
Syntax in Rutherford | 397 |
Specifics | 407 |
The Cantos2 | 414 |
The Anonymous | 437 |
Transformations | 163 |
Imagism | 173 |
The Invention of China | 192 |
The Persistent East | 223 |
Vortex Lewis | 232 |
The Stone | 248 |
Privacies | 263 |
Scatter | 279 |
Mao or Presumption | 289 |
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