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Eliot’s and Pound’s Declensions of the Past and Present: When Time Becomes Space
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Materia
Literature
Poesía moderna
Pound, Ezra
Eliot, T. S., 1888-1965
Poesía épica
Espacialidad
Modernist poetry
Modern epic
Spatiality
Fecha de publicación
2017
Resumen
[EN]The aim of this paper is to analyze the way in which Pound’s and Eliot’s Modernist poetics
assume the task of what Longenbach calls the “existential” historian who endeavors in
Bradley’s words “to breathe the life of the present into the death of the past.” It argues that
stylistically, this approach of time does away with the temporal dimension inherent in a
literary text and privileges instead spatiality, which is a characteristic feature of the
figurative arts. In the first instance it analyzes the modernist conception of newness and the
relationship between past and present, and in the second part it argues that the required
technique to reflect the conception of time
as a palimpsest together with the non-mimetic
aesthetics of modernist poetics transform the modern epic into primarily a spatial poems
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