Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Science
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: November 29, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780231142762
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 19th century; Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; 20th Century American Poetry; Literary History And Criticism; Literary Criticism; Poetry; English; Ireland; USA; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Semiotics & Theory; 20th century; American poetry; History and criticism; Modernism (Literature); Political aspects; Rhythm
Description: "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.