The Poetics of Fascism: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Paul de Man

by Paul Morrison and Paul Morrison

Book Overview

Morrison examines the legacy of the modernist poetics of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, as it relates to current theoretical orthodoxies, and traces its influence on the current crisis in post-structural literary theory. Morrison reads the politics of post-structural theory in relation to the socio-cultural arguments espoused in the poetry and prose by Pound and Eliot, and reveals a continuity between that theory and high modernism's tendency towards...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195080858
• ISBN13: 9780195080858
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"