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Persuasively charting a history of the avant-garde modernist poem in relation to communism, beginning in the 1910s and reaching into the 1940s, Red Modernism is an audacious examination of the twinned history of politics and poetry.

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Steven's audacious redefinition of modernist historiography ventures much further than previous attempts to read political inferences into post-imagist poetry. . . It does so by viewing the Russian Revolution as a foundational event in the narrative of modern American verse. A much needed counter to ideological micro-criticism, Red Modernism unfolds on an ambitiously broad canvas, seeking to highlight the epic global backdrop to the poems containing history that so preoccupied Pound and his compatriots William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky. Red Modernism argues meticulously for the centrality of the communist ideal in the work of Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky.
—Literature and History

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Ezra Pound
3. William Carlos Williams
4. Louis Zukofsky
Epilogue
Notes
Index

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 15 February 2018
      ISBN-13 9781421423579
      978-1421423579
      ISBN-10 142142357X
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      Literary theory Far-left political ideologies and movements

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Persuasively charting a history of the avant-garde modernist poem in relation to communism, beginning in the 1910s and reaching into the 1940s, Red Modernism is an audacious examination of the twinned history of politics and poetry.

      Trade Review
      Steven's audacious redefinition of modernist historiography ventures much further than previous attempts to read political inferences into post-imagist poetry. . . It does so by viewing the Russian Revolution as a foundational event in the narrative of modern American verse. A much needed counter to ideological micro-criticism, Red Modernism unfolds on an ambitiously broad canvas, seeking to highlight the epic global backdrop to the poems containing history that so preoccupied Pound and his compatriots William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky. Red Modernism argues meticulously for the centrality of the communist ideal in the work of Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky.
      —Literature and History

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      1. Introduction
      2. Ezra Pound
      3. William Carlos Williams
      4. Louis Zukofsky
      Epilogue
      Notes
      Index

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