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Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Phonoscopic Modernism Thaddeus Bolton and the Omnipresence of Rhythm Mapping Rhythmic Bodies Rhythm, Blood, Pulse, Heredity Rhythm, Nation, Race Nietzsche, Wagner, Spengler, Jung Rhythm and/as Political Ideology: Germany in the 1930s Rhythm and Constructing the Fascist Subject Summary by Carl Seashore Rhythmics in Modernist Poetics Racial Origins of Prosody 1. Pulsanda Tellus: Ezra Pound's Absolutist Rhythms The Root of the Matter Invisible Motors Pisan Symmetries The Dancer and the Corpus We Who Have Passed Over Lethe 2. Double Registrations in the River of Blood Primalities Amphibious Centaurs Rivers of Blood A Sort of Eugenic Paganism Ripples, Spirals, Fat Lines: Rhythmical Hormonies Inaudible Codes: Structuring the Corporate Text Codifying Political Bodies 3. Machining Convictions: W. B. Yeats's Sanguineous Rhythms "The subject of which I am most ignorant" Monotonous Fire The Bull and the Nightingale Haunting the Edge of Trance Ancient Salt Those Images That Waken in the Blood 4. Singing the Crisis Itself Cinematic Reversals; or, the Ghost of Abel in the Whale's Belly Bad Breath and Ghost Limbs Agents of Intensity Unrocking to a Pulse Auguries of the Inaudible: Strange Hearts and Wing Beats What Magic Drum? The Rhythms of Mummies, Vampires, Centaurs, and Butterflies Alexander and the Books of Prosody 5. Williams's Measured Interventions Measuring the Weather with Euclid and Einstein Angelic Cubes and Cubist Angels Notes Bibliography
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature).
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Knowledge -- Science.
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 -- Knowledge -- Science.
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Knowledge -- Science.
Rhythm -- Political aspects.
Racism in literature.
Literature and science -- History -- 20th century.
Politics and literature -- History -- 20th century.