ISBN:
9783030919481
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(LV, 392 p. 3 illus.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2023.
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mark, Sean Pound and Pasolini
Keywords:
Pasolini, Pier Paolo - 1922-1975
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Pound, Ezra - 1885-1972
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Literature, Modern—20th century.
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Comparative literature.
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European literature.
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Poetry.
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Motion picture plays, European.
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Literature, Modern
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Political and social views
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Hochschulschrift
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Pound, Ezra 1885-1972
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Pasolini, Pier Paolo 1922-1975
Abstract:
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Family Portraits -- Chapter 2. Creatures Facing Backwards -- Chapter 3. Exposition -- Chapter 4. An Economy of Signs -- Chapter 5. Failure -- Coda. .
Abstract:
In October 1967, Pier Paolo Pasolini travelled to Venice to interview Ezra Pound for broadcast on national television. One a lifelong Marxist, the other a former propagandist for the Fascist regime, their encounter was billed as a clash of opposites. But what do these poets share? And what can they tell us about the poetics and politics of the twentieth century? This book reads one by way of the other, aligning their engagement with different temporalities and traditions, polities and geographies, languages and forms, evoked as utopian alternatives to the cultural and political crises of capitalist modernity. Part literary history, part comparative study, it offers a new and provocative perspective on these poets and the critical debates around them – in particular, on Pound’s Italian years and Pasolini’s use of Pound in his work. Their connection helps to understand the implications and legacies of their work today. .
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-91948-1
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