Description: Further DetailsTitle: Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and ScienceCondition: NewSubtitle: Pound, Yeats, Williams, and Modern Sciences of RhythmISBN-10: 0231142765EAN: 9780231142762ISBN: 9780231142762Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/21/2007Description: In the half-century between 1890 and 1950, a variety of fields and disciplines, from musicology and literary studies to biology, psychology, genetics, and eugenics, expressed a profound interest in the subject of rhythm. In this book, Michael Golston recovers much of the work done in this area and situates it in the society, politics, and culture of the Modernist period. He then filters selected Modernist poems through this archive to demonstrate that innovations in prosody, form, and subject matter are based on a largely forgotten ideology of rhythm and that beneath Modernist prosody is a science and an accompanying technology. In his analysis, Golston first examines psychological and physiological experiments that purportedly proved that races responded differently to rhythmic stimuli. He then demonstrates how poets like Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, Mina Loy, and William Carlos Williams either absorbed or echoed the information in these studies, using it to hone the innovative edge of Modernist practice and fundamentally alter the way poetry was written.Golston performs close readings of canonical texts such as Pound's Cantos, Yeats's "Lake Isle of Innisfree," and William Carlos Williams's Paterson, and examines the role the sciences of rhythm played in racist discourses and fascist political thinking in the years leading up to World War II. Recovering obscure texts written in France, Germany, England, and America, Golston argues that "Rhythmics" was instrumental in generating an international modern art and should become a major consideration in our reading of reactionary avant-garde poetry.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Michael GolstonGenre: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2007 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Science
Title: Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Science
Subtitle: Pound, Yeats, Williams, and Modern Sciences of Rhythm
ISBN-10: 0231142765
EAN: 9780231142762
ISBN: 9780231142762
Release Date: 12/21/2007
Release Year: 2007
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Name: Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Science : Pound, Yeats, Williams, and Modern Sciences of Rhythm
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: General, Poetry, American / General, Semiotics & Theory, Subjects & Themes / Politics, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year: 2007
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Michael Golston
Item Length: 0.9 in
Subject Area: Music, Literary Criticism
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
