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Epic Negation: The Dialectical Poetics of Late Modernism

Epic Negation: The Dialectical Poetics of Late Modernism

Blanton, C. D.

Hardcover

Series: Modernist Literature and Culture

Fiction AnthologiesPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0199844712
ISBN13: 9780199844715
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 14 2015
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence.

The history of the epic-ranging from the heroic narratives of cultural origin found in Homer and Virgil to the tumultuous theological and political conflicts depicted by Dante or Milton-is nearly as old as literature itself. But the epic is also made and remade by its present, adapted to the pressures and formal necessities of its particular cultural moment. Examining modernist poetry's epic turn in the years between the two World Wars, C.D. Blanton's ambitious study charts the inversion of what Ezra Pound called a poem including history into a fractured and hollowed form, a negated epic that struggles not only to acknowledge the distant past but also to conceive its immediate present. Compelled to register the force of a larger historical totality it cannot directly re

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