THE LIMITS OF AMERICAN LITERARY IDEOLOGY IN POUND AND EMERSON by Cary Wolfe ( 9780511570520 )

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THE LIMITS OF AMERICAN LITERARY IDEOLOGY IN POUND AND EMERSON

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051157052X

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9780511570520

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

8 February, 2010

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Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 69

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Cary Wolfe analyses the dynamics and consequences of radical individualism and the sort of cultural critique it generates in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ezra Pound.

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In The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson, Cary Wolfe analyses the dynamics and consequences of radical individualism and the sort of cultural critique it generates in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ezra Pound. The main purpose of the book is to demonstrate that any form of individualism that is modelled on the logic and structure of private property will always reproduce the very contradictions and alienations that it set out to criticise and to remedy. Part of what makes this study unique and important is that it uses the ideology of individualism, still so powerful and seductive in contemporary America, to build a bridge between the two major figures from literary periods - Modernism and American Romanticism - which are often seen in stark opposition. In doing so, this study extends the critical paradigms and techniques of one of the most exciting new fields of cultural criticism (the so-called 'New Americanist' criticism) to cover a period (Modernism) and a type of writing (poetry) that it has largely ignored.

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