Dominant Themes In Ezra Pounds 1930s And 1940s Cantos. Dominant...
Alireza Farahbakhsh, Zeinab Heidary Moghaddam
Ezra Pound's Cantos (comprised of 117 separate cantos), which took him half a century to complete, covers no less than eight hundred pages of poetry. Various social, ideological, and literary views are interwoven in the fabric of his prose-like cantos, which are replete with typically complicated allusions, translations, ideograms, figures, places, and historical events. That is why quite a few fragments of his cantos are completely incomprehensible for laymen. This book studies a substantial section of The Cantos, namely cantos thirty-one through eighty-four (written in the dramatic decades of the 1930s and 1940s) to shed light on some of these complexities; it concentrates on Pound's economic and political views, his pessimism and...
ISBN: 978-3-8383-4745-5
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Дата выхода: июль 2011