The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought

by Sanford Schwartz

Book Overview

Sanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philosophy, science, and the arts. Beginning with the works of various philosophers--Bergson, James, Bradley, Nietzsche, and Husserl, among others--he establishes a matrix that brings together not only the principal characteristics of Modernist/New Critical poetics but also the affiliations between the Continental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691014469
• ISBN13: 9780691014463
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"