Intertextual Dynamics within the Literary Group — Joyce, Lewis, Pound and Eliot
The Men of 1914
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Introduction
Intertextual Dynamics is a book which focuses on textual manifestations of mutual influence within the core group of English literary Modernism. In some respects, then, it constitutes quite conventional academic ...
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The First Heave
Joyce had completed most of the rewriting of his Stephen Hero1 material by the time he began corresponding with Pound. The completed Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man2 ends boldly: ‘Dublin, 1904; Trieste, 191...
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Lost in the Labyrinth
The beginning of ‘Work in Progress’1 marks Joyce’s ultimate rendezvous with history and himself: the style is almost wholly unique. If, as I suggested, Ulysses constitutes a stylistic journey — starting with a sy...
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To Announce a New Age
James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot were all children of the 1880s. Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 in a south Dublin suburb; Lewis on 18 November of the same year, on board a yacht docked...
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The Great Decade
The book-publication of Ulysses1 in 1922 inaugurated the great era of literary Modernism. It also marked a major shift in the balance of power within the 1914 group. Whereas Lewis’s contribution was supreme in, s...
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These the Companions
Finnegans Wake was published in London and New York on 4 May 1939. Joyce had insisted on as early a date as possible since, as he put it in terms of his usual priorities: ‘War is going to break out, and nobody wi...
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Introduction
This book is about the literary representation of selfhood in the Modernist period. It explores developments and interrelationships within a twentieth-century discourse about the self which is both specialised...
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Conclusion
If the last drafts of Pound’s Cantos carried the Modernist project into the 1970s, the main impetus of the movement had spent itself by the mid-thirties. The discourse of self-fragmentation was well established b...
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Dissolving Self
In his farewell poem to London of 1920, ‘Hugh Selwyn Mauberley’, Ezra Pound sketched an extraordinary portrait of a turn-of-the-century poet. Through a pastiche of Jamesian prose, he effects an almost Cubist d...
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Fragmentary Self
The decade 1914–24 represents the historic node of English literary Modernism. It also evidences a virtual paradigm shift in the presentation of self-experience — by consciously ‘artistic’ writers in particula...
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Discontinuous Self
‘All things give way, nothing remains’ — so Walter Pater translated Heraclitus in one of the seminal texts for Modernist aesthetics.1 In claiming a sense of flux as ‘the tendency of modern thought’, Pater anticip...
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Self at War
If exceptional writers like Conrad, Eliot and Joyce were beginning to ‘dissolve’ Western selfhood from the turn of the century onwards, it was the 1914–18 War which precipitated many less hypersensitive indivi...
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Self-deception and Self-conflict
Self-deception and self-conflict have always been major themes in literature — some might say the major themes. Oedipus and Don Quixote, Lear, Arsinoé, Philip Pirrip and Willie Loman — all are, in important sense...
