Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson

Klappentext Cary Wolfe analyses the dynamics and consequences of radical individualism and the sort of cultural critique it generates in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ezra Pound. Zusammenfassung Cary Wolfe analyses the dynamics and consequences of radical individualism and the sort of cultural critique it generates in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ezra Pound. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A politics of difference; 2. Critiques of capitalist (literary) production; 3. Economies of individualism; 4. 'Gynocracy' and 'red blood'; 5. Visionary capital; 6. Ideologies of the organic; 7. Signs that bind: ideology and form in Pound's poetics; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Cary Wolfe
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.1994
• EAN: 9780521445559
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44555-9
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Literature, Culture, Theory; Literature, Culture, Theory
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies