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The birth of modernism : Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and the occult /

In The Birth of Modernism Leon Surette offers a radical revision of our understanding of high modernism. Acknowledging that current post-modern and theoretical critiques have provoked fresh examination of the high culture of the first half of this century, Surette rejects their characterization of m...

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Main Author: Surette, Leon (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1993]
Subjects:
Pound, Ezra, > 1885-1972 > Criticism and interpretation.
Eliot, T. S. > (Thomas Stearns), > 1888-1965 > Criticism and interpretation.
Yeats, W. B. > (William Butler), > 1865-1939 > Criticism and interpretation.
Modernism (Literature) > Europe.
European literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
European literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literary criticism.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780773563773
0773563776
9781282856257
1282856251
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Discovering the past
  • 2. The occult tradition in The Cantos
  • 3. Nietzsche, Wagner, and myth
  • 4. Pound's editing of The Waste Land.

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