Apocalypse and after
Comens, Bruce , 1953-
Apocalypse and after : modern strategy and postmodern tactics in Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky / Bruce Comens. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , c1995. - xiv, 218 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-214) and index.
Apocalypse and After examines the development of Modernism into Postmodernism through the works of three major American poets. Modernism's struggle to develop a new global strategy was to a great extent a response to the catastrophe of World War I, while the Postmodern resort to fragmentary tactics stems from Modernist strategy's implications in World War II and the atomic bomb. The final chapter adumbrates the emergence of a paramodernism characteristic of our own time. The book is innovative in its many readings of specific poems and in its larger assessments of the poets' careers, while the method of analysis it develops is particularly noteworthy for its ability to relate nuances of formal innovation to the writers' diverse political contexts and programs.
081730732X (alk. paper)
94005843
Williams, William Carlos , 1883-1963 --Criticism and interpretation.
Zukofsky, Louis , 1904-1978 --Criticism and interpretation.
Pound, Ezra , 1885-1972 --Criticism and interpretation.
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Literature and history--History--United States--20th century.
Apocalyptic literature--History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
PS310.H57 / C65 1995
Apocalypse and after : modern strategy and postmodern tactics in Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky / Bruce Comens. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , c1995. - xiv, 218 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-214) and index.
Apocalypse and After examines the development of Modernism into Postmodernism through the works of three major American poets. Modernism's struggle to develop a new global strategy was to a great extent a response to the catastrophe of World War I, while the Postmodern resort to fragmentary tactics stems from Modernist strategy's implications in World War II and the atomic bomb. The final chapter adumbrates the emergence of a paramodernism characteristic of our own time. The book is innovative in its many readings of specific poems and in its larger assessments of the poets' careers, while the method of analysis it develops is particularly noteworthy for its ability to relate nuances of formal innovation to the writers' diverse political contexts and programs.
081730732X (alk. paper)
94005843
Williams, William Carlos , 1883-1963 --Criticism and interpretation.
Zukofsky, Louis , 1904-1978 --Criticism and interpretation.
Pound, Ezra , 1885-1972 --Criticism and interpretation.
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Literature and history--History--United States--20th century.
Apocalyptic literature--History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
PS310.H57 / C65 1995