Epic Reinvented : : Ezra Pound and the Victorians / / Mary Ellis Gibson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Gibson, Mary Ellis,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; A Note on Texts --; Abbreviations for Works of Ezra Pound --; Chapter 1. Pound's Nineteenth-Century Canon: Historicism, Aestheticism, and the Prose Tradition in Verse --; Chapter 2. Poet as Ragpicker: Browning in Pound's Early Poetry --; Chapter 3. Browning in the Early Cantos: Irony versus Epic --; Chapter 4. Between Metonymy and Metaphor: Tropological Rhetoric and The Cantos --; Chapter 5. The Modernist Sage: Poetry, Politics, and Prophecy --; Chapter 6. Doubled Feminine: A Painted Paradise at the End of It --; Chapter 7. Postromantic Epic in the Bone Shop of History --; Appendix --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501735417; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501735417
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mary Ellis Gibson.

In Epic Reinvented, Mary Ellis Gibson examines Ezra Pound's Cantos to trace connections between his aesthetics and his politics. She treats little-known and unpublished writings, including many early poems. One substantial poem, "In Praise of the Masters," appears here in print for the first time. Discussing Pound's relationship to his Victorian predecessors, particularly Robert Browning and nineteenth-century historians, Gibson demonstrates how Pound's attempt to write a post-Romantic epic both confronted questions of genre and social order and led to the unpredictabilities of his politics. She develops a rhetorical tropology to account for the formal and cultural dimensions of Pound's contradictions. Exploring fin-de-siècle publishing, Gibson investigates how Pound's utopian political vision was rooted in nineteenth-century and fascist ideologies of gender. Violence is implicit in both. For Gibson, the aesthetic Pound and the political Pound, Pound the visionary and Pound the historian, are one.