The Geometry of Modernism: The Vorticist Idiom in Lewis, Pound, H.D., and YeatsA fresh, engaging study of one of modernism's most pivotal movements. |
Contents
Illustrations | 18 |
Abbreviations | 20 |
Preface | 22 |
Acknowledgments | 30 |
Permissions and Sources | 32 |
Introduction | 36 |
1 Wyndham Lewis Vorticism and the Campaign against Wildean Effeminacy | |
2 A Vorticist Renaissance? Ezra Pound the Geometric Clean Line and Facist Italy | |
HD and the Vorticist Body | |
The Visionary Texts of Yeats and HD | |
Epilogue | |
Notes | |
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