Modernist Figures

Volume 2: Ezra Pound and After
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-8382-2209-7
Verlag: Ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 438 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 673 g

Reihe: The Best of Scholars and Scholarship in the Humanities

brings together three decades of Peter Nicholls’s scholarship on poetry and poetics, tracing how modernism redefined literary form, skepticism, and cultural authority. The collection ranges across American, British, and European traditions, this second volume beginning with a substantial group of chapters that examines the positive and negative features of Pound’s legacy—from his fascination with Japanese Noh and the Ruskinian grotesque, through his ideological entanglements with fascism, to the late Cantos’ fragmentary brilliance. Closing essays extend modernist concerns into postmodern and contemporary writing, including Toni Morrison, Lyn Hejinian, and Susan Howe, showing how these writers also fundamentally contested and revised Pound’s ideological notions of time and historicity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nicholls, Peter

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hegelmeyer, Chad

Yale Neaman, Elliot

Feldman, Matthew

Mamdani, Karim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholls, Peter
Peter Nicholls is Emeritus Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University. His publications include Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics and Writing (1984), Modernisms: A Literary Guide (2nd ed. 2009), George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism (2007), and many articles and essays on literature and theory. He has co-edited a number of volumes, including The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (2004), Ruskin and Modernism (2001), and How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now (2016). He is currently writing a book about Leopardi.

Hegelmeyer, Chad
Dr. Chad Hegelmeyer, Professor of Humanities at the Oregon Institute of Technology.