The Tale of the Tribe: Ezra Pound and the Modern Verse Epic

by Michael André Bernstein

Overview

Michael Andre Bernstein offers a systematic analysis of the tradition of modern epic poetry—its different structural problems and their diverse but inter-related solutions, and considers issues central to contemporary literary and philosophical theory.

Originally published in 1980.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691615738
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	07/14/2014
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library , #679
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

• FrontMatter, pg. i
• Acknowledgments, pg. vii
• Table of contents, pg. xi
• Introduction. The tale of the tribe, pg. 3
• One. A poem including history, pg. 29
• Two. An eternal state of mind, pg. 75
• Three. Thus was it in time, pg. 102
• Four. The language of the tribe, pg. 127
• Five. Identification and its vicissitudes, pg. 162
• Six. The artist who does the next job, pg. 183
• Seven. A local war?, pg. 191
• Eight. A delirium of solutions, pg. 201
• Nine. Speed against the inundation, pg. 217
• Ten. The old measure of care, pg. 227
• Eleven. The new localism, pg. 239
• Twelve. Polis is this, pg. 251
• Conclusion. Remember that i have remembered, pg. 271
• Appendix. On founding: a historical survey of Gloucester's settlement, pg. 283
• Notes, pg. 289
• Index, pg. 313