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PoundвЂ™s poetic career, for example, is littered with the suggestion that Instead, his wartime broadcasts are the result of a steady engagement withДЄnd discussion of mass communications media. Like numerous other early twentieth-century writers, PoundвЂ™s turn to broadcastingДuring World War II did not spontaneously emerge. Instead, by recovering the transmission history of these writersвЂ™ wartimeД«roadcasts and analyzing the broadcasts themselves, this work shows that each writer relied on the strategic interplay ofДЄesthetic content and technical form in order to promote maximum listener Which human agency has little to no role. Is the messageвЂќ) and KittlerвЂ™s (вЂњmedia determine our situationвЂќ) theories of media determinism, in Others, invites a re-evaluation of McLuhanвЂ™s (вЂњthe medium Sayers, Louis MacNeice, George Orwell, and Mulk Raj Anand, among many Modernism at the Microphone, PoundвЂ™s choice to lend his voice to radio broadcastingДuring World War II, a decision also made by fellow modernists Archibald MacLeish, T. Readings of mediation Г la Friedrich Kittler. But PoundвЂ™sДesire to broadcast poetry to a mass audience, specifically during World War II, also challenges post-humanist and militaristic

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Mass culture-transgressions rarely associated with one of the innovators of Anglo-American free verse. In his occasional transmission of the Cantos, Pound muddied the great divides between literature and propaganda, The example of PoundДЄs wartime broadcaster, analyzed further in Chapter 5, forces us to expand significantly the narrative of literary modernism and its intersection with

States during the early years of World War II. In fact, PoundвЂ™s twelve-year incarceration in St.Д®lizabethвЂ™s is a direct result of the poetвЂ™s fascist andДў anti-Semitic broadcasts, which he transmitted from Italy to the United On his own, Pound united the individualistД¬ulture of radio and did so, significantly, during a time of war. Language, his form-to express this significant tri-part relationship. Kenner makes this blatantly clear when, inДedicating The Poetry of Ezra Pound to McLuhan, he uses PoundвЂ™s Canto 3-his While the scholastic genealogy connecting Kenner to McLuhan certainly links вЂњmodernismвЂ™sД¬ulture and aesthetics to a faith in communication,вЂќ as Mark Goble writes in BeautifulД¬ircuits, it is Pound who anchors this association. In both studies of modernism and media theory today. Although lasting only two hours, this meeting between the poet and two of hisДЄcolytes marks a concrete moment of intersection between modernist aestheticsДЄnd communications media, paving the way for their continued comingling In the second half of the twentieth century. His lifelong interest in Pound, and in turn led him to become a leading scholar of modernism For Kenner, this encounter was the beginning of This conversation sparked an interest in media forms for McLuhan that would lead him to make groundbreakingД¬laims about mediaвЂ™s impact on human thought and sensory processes. With Kenner, a student at the time, the two traveled to Washington, DC in order to talk to Pound about his work and the state Of literature at the University of Toronto and fascinated by PoundвЂ™s poetic formalism and encyclopedic knowledge. McLuhan, not yet the grandfather of media studies, was a professor

McLuhan and Hugh Kenner visited an imprisoned Ezra Pound at St. To email * Your name * Your email * Comment Please tick the box below * Although lasting only two hours, this meeting between. For Kenner, this encounter was the beginning of his lifelong interest in Pound, and in turn led him to become a leading scholar of modernism in the second half of the twentieth century. This conversation sparked an interest in media forms for McLuhan that would lead him to make groundbreaking claims about mediaвЂ™s impact on human thought and sensory processes. Along with Kenner, a student at the time, the two traveled to Washington, DC in order to talk to Pound about his work and the state of contemporary literature.

McLuhan, not yet the grandfather of media studies, was a professor of literature at the University of Toronto and fascinated by PoundвЂ™s poetic formalism and encyclopedic knowledge. On JMarshall McLuhan and Hugh Kenner visited an imprisoned Ezra Pound at St. Ezra PoundArtists are the antennae of the race.

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