Apocalypse and After: Modern Strategy and Postmodern Tactics in Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky

by Bruce Comens

Overview

Examines the development of Modernism into Postmodernism as it occurs in the works of three major poets
 
Apocalypse and After attends closely to the social and political dimensions of the development of Modernism into Postmodernism as embodied in the works of three major poets. Modernism’s struggle to develop a new global strategy was to a great extent a response to the catastrophe of World War I, while the Postmodern resort to fragmentary tactics stems from the failure of Modernist strategy both to avert World War II and to come to terms with the horror of the atomic bomb.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817307325
Publisher:	University of Alabama Press
Publication date:	01/30/1995
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Bruce Comens is assistant professor of English at Temple University.

Editorial Reviews

Comens offers the most persuasive account that I have yet seen of the movement from Modernism to Postmodernism, with Pound as an ultimately tragic example of the perils of Modernism, with Williams presented as an incipient Postmodernist, and with Zukofsky as representative of a fully developed Postmodernist.”
—Burton Hatlen, University of Maine

 

From the Publisher

An examination of the maturation of Modernism into Postmodernism through the works of three major American poets: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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