Consumption and Depression in Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukovsky and Ezra Pound
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1999
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-71451-5 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-71451-5 (ISBN)
By contrasting Pound's political values with those of Stein and Zukofsky, this study argues that these three different writers share a complex set of attitudes that are grounded in a collective social fantasy corresponding to the rise of mass consumption and the emergence of corporate social forms.
The career of Ezra Pound has come to represent the political tendencies which, it has been claimed, are inherent to modernist aesthetics. But the political impulses of the modernists cannot be adequately represented by Pound's extreme positions; Pound's own political activities and commitments, in fact, do not adequately articulate the contradictory attitudes and beliefs that made them possible. By contrasting Pound's politics to the political values and beliefs of Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky during the Depression, this book argues that these three very different writers share a complex set of attitudes and beliefs that are grounded in a collective social fantasy corresponding to the rise of mass consumption and the emergency of corporate social forms.
The career of Ezra Pound has come to represent the political tendencies which, it has been claimed, are inherent to modernist aesthetics. But the political impulses of the modernists cannot be adequately represented by Pound's extreme positions; Pound's own political activities and commitments, in fact, do not adequately articulate the contradictory attitudes and beliefs that made them possible. By contrasting Pound's politics to the political values and beliefs of Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky during the Depression, this book argues that these three very different writers share a complex set of attitudes and beliefs that are grounded in a collective social fantasy corresponding to the rise of mass consumption and the emergency of corporate social forms.
Luke Carson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria.
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Consumption and Depression (Stein and Pound) Gertrude Stein's Great Depression Value From Obligation (Stein) 'New Deal or Steal' (Zukofsky and Pound) Animated Things (Zakofesky and Pound) Endnotes
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.1.1999 |
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Zusatzinfo | X, 283 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-333-71451-2 / 0333714512 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-333-71451-5 / 9780333714515 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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