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25 janvier 2022
- handle: 10670/1.67j26b
- isbn: 9782728825103
- eisbn: 9782728809844
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Michael Heller, « Fight for an Illusion: H.D.’s Helen in Egypt, Pound’s Cantos and the Masques of Myth and History », Éditions Rue d’Ulm, ID : 10670/1.67j26b
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Modernity is not so much a condition as a strategy, one of the ways out, as a Sartre might quip, for geniuses or at least intelligent minds in difficult cases. Both Helen in Egypt (in fact, almost all of H.D.’s so-called post-Imagist work) and Pound’s Cantos contain war-machine gestures, simultaneously defensive and aggressive, as they try to break the holds of restraining traditions, both aesthetic and cultural, and manifest new poetic dynamics. So let me begin with my word “masque,” recalli...