{"product_id":"quantum-poetics-yeats-pound-eliot-and-the-science-of-modernism-paperback-9780521035330","title":"Quantum Poetics; Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521035330","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eQuantum Poetics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eYeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores the complex intersection between science and poetry in the work of Yeats, Eliot and Pound.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDaniel Albright (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521035330, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 December 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 11 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.483 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Quantum Poetics offers a better context in which to make sense of Modernism's obsessive need to isolate elementary literary units: 'classicism', for example, might explain the temperament that produced the vortex, but reference to science explains the force and motion of the vortex itself. Best of all, Albright gives us a new way to understand how Modernism's various characteristic ambivalences resolve themselves.' Journal of English and Germanic Philology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eQuantum Poetics examines the way modernist poets appropriated scientific metaphors as part of a general search for the pre-verbal origins of poetry. Daniel Albright traces Modernism's search for the elementary particles from which poems were constructed. The poetic possibilities offered by developments in scientific discourse intrigued Yeats, Eliot and Pound, writers intent on remapping the general theory of poetry. Using models supplied by physicists, Yeats sought for the basic units of poetic force, both through his sequence A Vision and through his belief in, and defence of, the purity of symbols. Pound's whole critical vocabulary, Albright claims, aims at drawing art and science together in a search for poetic precision, the tiniest textual particles that held poems together. Through a series of patient and original readings, Quantum Poetics demonstrates how modernists created a whole new way of thinking about poetry and science as two different aspects of the same quest.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Notes on references\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Yeats's Waves: 1. Yeats's figures as reflections in water\u003cbr\u003e 2. Yeats and the avant-garde\u003cbr\u003e 3. The theme of homunculus: Yeats and Wyndham Lewis\u003cbr\u003e 4. Yeats and the sublime\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Pound's Particles: 5. Minima (elementary particles of modernist poetry)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Symbol (Yeats's precursor to Pound's image)\u003cbr\u003e 7. The decay of symbols\u003cbr\u003e 8. Things in themselves (Pound's anti-allegorism)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Image (Kandinsky, Brancusi, Tchelitchew)\u003cbr\u003e 10. Units of rhythm (Antheil)\u003cbr\u003e 11. Ideogram\u003cbr\u003e 12. Vortex\u003cbr\u003e 13. The decay of vortices\u003cbr\u003e 14. The null set (Hugh Selwyn Mauberley)\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Eliot's Waves: 15. Monadological metaphors in Eliot's early work\u003cbr\u003e 16. Narratives tied in knots\u003cbr\u003e 17. Christ-particles in Eliot's late work (relief form the waves)\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003795755288,"sku":"9780521035330","price":38.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521035330i_42745eec-7216-405a-b218-3d085fc3c3d4.jpg?v=1694968303","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/quantum-poetics-yeats-pound-eliot-and-the-science-of-modernism-paperback-9780521035330","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}