[PDF.62ls] Waking Giants: The Presence of the Past in Modernism

Waking Giants: The Presence of the Past in Modernism

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 | #6198735 in Books |  Herbert N Schneidau |  1991-08-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x1.06 x5.75l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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|| |"Schneidau is superb in his understanding of and presentation of Pound's impact on his age, and the present volume does an excellent job of summarizing his influence and contribution to the twentieth-century literary scene....Entertaining, informative."--Engli

This is a study of the most paradoxical aspect of modernism, its obsession with the past. Eliot wrote that the artist must be conscious "not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence." This creed permeated the movement: Modernists believed that the energies of the past could be resurrected in modern works, and that they could be the very force that makes those works modern: the urge of Pound and others to "make it new" stemmed from seeing the past as a source...

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