Radio corpse : imagism and the cryptaesthetic of Ezra Pound
Focusing on the necrophilic dimension of Pound’s poetry and the inflections of materiality enabled by the modernist image, Tiffany finds a continuum between Decadent practice and the avant-garde, between the image’s prehistory and its political afterlife, between the “corpse language” of Victorian poetry and a conception of the “radioactive” image
Print Book, English, cop. 1995
Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.), cop. 1995
X, 302 p. 21 cm
9780674746626, 0674746627
1014510426
The mystery of negation; mortal images; cryptaesthesia - making and unmaking, memory cells, corpse language, hyperaesthetics and the cult of mourning; anathemata - the sad wit of pollution, plastic surgery; impossible effigies; radioactivity - radium, phantom transmissions, magical realism, erotic casualties, dictation and oblivion.