The Tale of the Tribe : : Ezra Pound and the Modern Verse Epic / / Michael André Bernstein.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Bernstein, Michael André,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 679
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

Michael Andre Bernstein offers a systematic analysis of the tradition of modern epic poetry--its different structural problems and their diverse but inter-related solutions, and considers issues central to contemporary literary and philosophical theory.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Introduction. The tale of the tribe -- A. The cantos -- One. A poem including history -- Two. An eternal state of mind -- Three. Thus was it in time -- Four. The language of the tribe -- Five. Identification and its vicissitudes -- Six. The artist who does the next job -- B. Paterson -- Seven. A local war? -- Eight. A delirium of solutions -- Nine. Speed against the inundation -- C. The maximus poems -- Ten. The old measure of care -- Eleven. The new localism -- Twelve. Polis is this -- Conclusion. Remember that i have remembered -- Appendix. On founding: a historical survey of Gloucester's settlement -- Notes -- Index