All that is Solid Melts Into Air
All that is Solid Melts Into Air

Author: Marshall Berman

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780860917854

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The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.

The Economics of Fantasy
The Economics of Fantasy

Author: Sharon Stockton

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 081421018X

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The author examines the evolution of the rape narrative in twentieth-century literature: What accounts for the persistence of the old story of male power and violence, and female passivity and penetrability? How has the story changed over the course of the twentieth century? She investigates the manner in which the violation of the female body serves as a metaphor for a synthesis of masculinity and political economy.

The Geography of the Imagination
The Geography of the Imagination

Author: Guy Davenport

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781567920802

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In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism.

In Bluebeard's Castle
In Bluebeard's Castle

Author: George Steiner

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1971-01-01

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780300017106

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The author presents a penetrating analysis of the collapse of Western culture during the last half of the twentieth century

The Poetry of Ezra Pound
The Poetry of Ezra Pound

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Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1985-01-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780803277564

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This pioneering study did much to rehabilitate Ezra Pound's reputation after a long period of critical hostility and neglect. Published in 1951, it was the first comprehensive examination of the Cantos and other major works that would strongly influence the course of contemporary poetry.

The New Ezra Pound Studies
The New Ezra Pound Studies

Author: Mark Byron

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-11-07

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1108499015

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Essays on recent developments in Pound scholarship and research, including newly available primary sources and methodological advances in cognate fields.