PDF⋙ Reading Pound Reading: Modernism After Nietzsche by Kathryne V. Lindberg
Reading Pound Reading: Modernism After Nietzsche by Kathryne V. Lindberg Reading Pound Reading: Modernism After Nietzsche by Kathryne V. Lindberg PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad This book examines Ezra Pound's own critical writing in an effort to establish its links both to 19th-century thought and to modern critical movements ranging from New Criticism to post-structuralism. In Reading Pound Reading , Kathryne Lindberg argues that traditional Modernist views of Pound held by the literary academy fail to describe the work of a writer who defied all literary boundaries--including the literary practices and tenets of "modernism." Because Pound had no coherent aesthetics--he read against ideas and opposed generalizations--he adapted reading strategies from discourses as varied as philosophy, anthropology, sinology, entymology, physics, and politics. Through a careful analysis of Pound's often forgotten literary and cultural criticism, Lindberg reveals the elements it shares...