Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism

by Vincent Sherry

Book Overview

Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis developed a highly experimental art; they were attracted simultaneously to political programs remarkably backward in outlook--the autocracies of Fascist Italy and Germany. That paradox, central to the problematic achievement of Anglo-American modernism, is freshly addressed in this study. Here Sherry examines the influence of music and painting on literature, presents original research on European intellectual history,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195076931
• ISBN13: 9780195076936
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"