Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound

Informationen zum Autor Ira B. Nadel is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound. Klappentext Ezra Pound is one of the most visible and influential poets of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most complex, his poetry containing historical and mythical allusions, experiments of form and style and often controversial political views. Yet Pound's life and work continue to fascinate. This Introduction, first published in 2005, is designed to help students reading Pound for the first time. Pound scholar Ira B. Nadel provides a guide to the rich webs of allusion and stylistic borrowings and innovations in Pound's writing. He offers a clear overview of Pound's life, works, contexts and reception history and his multidimensional career as a poet, translator, critic, editor, anthologist and impresario, a career that placed him at the heart of literary modernism. This invaluable and accessible introduction explains the huge contribution Pound made to the development of modernism in the early twentieth century. Zusammenfassung This Introduction! first published in 2005! is designed to help students reading Pound for the first time. Ira B. Nadel provides a guide to the rich webs of allusion and stylistic borrowings and innovations in Pound's writing and explains the huge contribution Pound made to the development of modernism in the early twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; How to use this book; 1. Life; 2. Context; 3. Works; 4. Critical reception; Guide to further reading.

Product details

• Authors: Ira B. Nadel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.04.2007
• EAN: 9780521853910
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85391-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge Introductions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets