T. E. Hulme and modernism
By: Oliver Tearle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781441156655; 9781441187123; 9781441184986
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Modernism (Literature)
Description: T.E. Hulme (1883-1917) was the author of a small number of poems and some genuinely innovative critical and philosophical writings. From this modest output his influence on later writers was considerable: T.S. Eliot described his poems as 'beautiful' and Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis were both inspired by his work. T.E. Hulme and Modernism explores his impact on key modernist figures, and also shows where this influence has been misplaced or misinterpreted. Oliver Tearle also here suggests that Hulme's significance goes beyond his influence on modernism, and that his work provides new ways of thinking about creative and critical writing in the twenty-first century. What is poetry? What is the purpose of literary criticism? And how might the strange phenomenon of the fragment offer new ways of theorising such issues? In exploring these and other important matters this book pushes at the boundaries of literary criticism and of writing itself.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-156) and index.
Table of contents: title: Look-out man: Hulme's theories; title: Star-eaten: Hulme's romantic images; title: Noon-heat: Hulme's contemporaries; title: Marking-time: Hulme's influence.