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Rhythm and race in modernist poetry and science

"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2008
Columbia University Press, New York, ©2008
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780231142762, 9780231512336, 0231142765, 0231512333
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Introduction: phonoscopic modernism
Pulsanda tellus: Ezra Pound's absolutist rhythms
Double registrations in the river of blood
Machining convictions: W.B. Yeats's sanguineous rhytms
Singing the crisis itself
Williams's measured interventions