Charles Henri Ford: Between Modernism and Postmodernism

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av Alexander Howard, Erik Tonning

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The first American surrealist poet, a prolific literary editor and a seminal influence on the New York School of poetry, Charles Henri Ford was a key figure in the transition from late modernist to postmodern culture in America. Charles Henri Ford: Between Modernism and Postmodernism is the first book-length scholarly study of this important literary figure. Drawing on new archival research – including explorations of Ford’s correspondence with the likes of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Parker Tyler, and many others – the book explores the full impact of Ford’s contribution to 20th-century American literary culture.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-11-29
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt372 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistoricizing Modernism
Antal sidor264
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350092211

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Introduction: Water from a Bucket or, the the Hidden Modernist Histories of Charles Henri FordChapter 1: Blues and the Belated Renovation of ModernismChapter 2: Community, Circularity, Sociability, PostcardsChapter 3: Building Up and Breaking Down: Surrealism, New York, New CriticismChapter 4: Spare Parts, or, Caught Between Pop and a Historical Hard PlaceChapter 5: Multitudes, Mirrors, Crystals, Haiku, HomeConclusion: 'I Will Be What I Am' or, the Camp Modernist Legacy of Charles Henri FordBibliographyIndex

Alexander Howard’s pathbreaking study of the life and work of the sadly neglected Charles Henri Ford is much more than a simple recuperation of lost value. It dextrously navigates the categorial coral reefs growing up over the wrecks of modernism and postmodernism both, and establishes some eye-opening passages between and among them, where the reef-fish teem and school. Howard’s Ford is a multiform experimentalist, queer icon, regional surrealist, late-modernist mentor, and sociable internationalist, who tirelessly offered his ‘torsional’ character to those movements and causes that could use his energy. His longevity turns out to be a key to the broken clocks of modernity, with which he tinkered and played in an amazing series of works to which we now have the most reliable guide.