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Radio Corpse : Imagism and the Cryptaesthetic of Ezra Pound
Radio Corpse Imagism and the Cryptaesthetic of Ezra Pound Author:Daniel Tiffany Radio Corpse offers a fundamental revision of one of the most powerful and persistent aesthetic ideologies of modernism. Focusing on the necrophilic dimension of Pound's earliest poetry and on the inflections of materiality authorized by the modernist image, Daniel Tiffany establishes a continuum between Decadent practice and the incipien... more »t avant-garde, between the prehistory of the image and its political afterlife, between what Pound calls the "corpse language" of late Victorian poetry and a conception of the image that borrows certain "radioactive" qualities from the historical discovery of radium and the development of radiography.« less