Apocalypse and after
Subtitle: modern strategy and postmodern tactics in Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky
By: Bruce Comens.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation.; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Experimental poetry, American -- History and criticism.; Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.; Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
Description: Apocalypse and After examines the development of Modernism into Postmodernism through the works of three major American poets. Modernism's struggle to develop a new global strategy was to a great extent a response to the catastrophe of World War I, while the Postmodern resort to fragmentary tactics stems from Modernist strategy's implications in World War II and the atomic bomb. The final chapter adumbrates the emergence of a paramodernism characteristic of our own time.

The book is innovative in its many readings of specific poems and in its larger assessments of the poets' careers, while the method of analysis it develops is particularly noteworthy for its ability to relate nuances of formal innovation to the writers' diverse political contexts and programs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-214) and index.