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100 1 $aAlbright, Daniel,$d1945-2015.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81024084
245 10 $aQuantum poetics :$bYeats, Pound, Eliot, and the science of modernism /$cDaniel Albright.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1997.
263 $a9702
300 $ax, 307 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 288-294) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tYeats's waves.$g1.$tYeats's figures as reflections in water.$g2.$tYeats and the avant-garde.$g3.$tThe theme of homunculus: Yeats and Wyndham Lewis.$g4.$tYeats and the sublime --$gCh. 2.$tPound's particles.$g1.$tMinima (elementary particles of modernist poetry).$g2.$tSymbol (Yeats's precursor to Pound's image).$g3.$tThe decay of symbols.$g4.$tThings in themselves (Pound's anti-allegorism).$g5.$tImage (Kandinsky, Brancusi, Tchelitchew).$g6.$tUnits of rhythm (Antheil).$g7.$tIdeogram.$g8.$tVortex.$g9.$tThe decay of vortices.$g10.$tThe null set (Hugh Selwyn Mauberley) --$gCh. 3.$tEliot's waves.$g1.$tMonadological metaphors in Eliot's early work.$g2.$tNarratives tied in knots.$g3.$tChrist-particles in Eliot's late work (relief from the waves).
520 $aQuantum Poetics is a study of the way Modernist poets appropriated scientific metaphors as part of a general search for the pre-verbal origins of poetry. In this wide-ranging and eloquent study, leading Modernist scholar Daniel Albright examines Yeats's, Eliot's, and Pound's search for the elementary particles from which poems were constructed. The poetic possibilities offered by developments in scientific discourse intrigued a Modernist movement intent on remapping the theory of poetry.
520 8 $aUsing models supplied by physicists, Yeats sought for the basic units of poetic force through his sequence A Vision and through his belief in and defense 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.
520 8 $aThrough a series of patient and original readings, Quantum Poetics demonstrates how Eliot, Lawrence, and others formulated what Albright calls "a wave-theory of poetry," a mode of expression intended to create telepathic intimacy between writer and reader and to encourage a whole new way of thinking about poetry and science as two different aspects of the same reality.
520 8 $aThis comprehensive study from a leading scholar of Modernism is a fresh examination of the relationship between science and Modernist poetry.
650 0 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101081
650 0 $aModernism (Literature)$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107886
650 0 $aLiterature and science$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009129911
600 10 $aYeats, W. B.$q(William Butler),$d1865-1939$xKnowledge and learning.
650 0 $aScience.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118553
650 0 $aLiterature and science$zIreland$xHistory$y20th century.
600 10 $aEliot, T. S.$q(Thomas Stearns),$d1888-1965$xKnowledge and learning.
600 10 $aPound, Ezra,$d1885-1972$xKnowledge and learning.
650 0 $aModernism (Literature)$zIreland.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107890
650 0 $aScience in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118667
650 0 $aPoetics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85103703
852 00 $bglx$hPS310.M57$iA55 1997
852 00 $bbar$hPS310.M57$iA55 1997