The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought

Sanford Schwartz

Published by Princeton University Press 1985

The Matrix of Modernism

Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought

Sanford Schwartz

Volume 548 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400857623

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Sanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philosophy, science, and the arts. Beginning with the works of various philosophers--Bergson, James, Bradley, Nietzsche, and Husserl, among others--he establishes a matrix that brings together not only the principal characteristics of Modernist/New Critical poetics but also the affiliations between the Continental and the Anglo-American critical traditions.

Originally published in 1985.

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Schwartz explores several oppositions that underlie the thinking of the early modernists, and uses them as a frame for original analysis of individual essays and poems. The result is that many cliches of early literary modernism--Pound's ideogrammic method, Eliot's objective correlative--are refreshed by being placed in a larger context. One of this book's great virtues is that it uncovers the philosophical assumptions behind the new poetry without turning the poetry into philosophy.

"This book makes a strong case for a radical revision of current views of the philosophy of modernism and also of the relation of that philosophy to the post-phenomenological fashions of the present time. . . . I am very impressed."—Frank Kermode

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CHAPTER I. “This Invented World”: Abstraction and Experience at the Turn of the Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
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CHAPTER III. Ezra Pound: Cultural Memory and the Visionary Imagination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
CHAPTER IV. Incarnate Words: Eliot’s Early Career Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
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