Ezra Pound's and Olga Rudge's The Blue Spill

ISBN: 9781474281058 出版年：2019 页码：191 Ezra Pound Bloomsbury Publishing

Written during the Italian winter of 1930, The Blue Spill is an unfinished detective novel written by Ezra Pound – the leading figure of modernist poetry in the 20th century – and his long-time companiPublished for the first time in this authoritative critical edition, the novel reflects both Rudge's and Pound's voracious reading of popular fiction as it echoes and parodies such writers as Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and P.G. Wodehouse.Based on the original manuscripts of the novel, this critical edition includes annotation and textual commentary throughout. The book also includes critical essays exploring the contexts of the work, from the dynamics of artistic collaboration to the growing popularity of detective fiction at the beginning of the 20th century. Taken togethepublication sheds new light on the relationship between the literary avant-garde and popular culture in the modernist period.