Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Poetics - Pound, Yeats, Williams and Modern Sciences of Rhythm

List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Phonoscopic Modernism 1(11) Thaddeus Bolton and the Omnipresence of Rhythm 12(7) Mapping Rhythmic Bodies 19(7) Rhythm, Blood, Pulse, Heredity 26(3) Rhythm, Nation, Race 29(5) Nietzsche, Wagner, Spengler, Jung 34(6) Rhythm and/as Political Ideology: Germany in the 1930s 40(2) Rhythm and Constructing the Fascist Subject 42(1) Summary by Carl Seashore 43(4) Rhythmics in Modernist Poetics 47(7) Racial Origins of Prosody 54(5) Pulsanda Tellus: Ezra Pound's Absolutist Rhythms 59(41) The Root of the Matter 59(5) Invisible Motors 64(9) Pisan Symmetries 73(6) The Dancer and the Corpus 79(8) We Who Have Passed Over Lethe 87(13) Double Registrations in the River of Blood 100(46) Primalities 103(4) Amphibious Centaurs 107(4) Rivers of Blood 111(12) A Sort of Eugenic Paganism 123(5) Ripples, Spirals, Fat Lines: Rhythmical Hormonies 128(9) Inaudible Codes: Structuring the Corporate Text 137(1) Codifying Political Bodies 138(8) Machining Convictions: W. B. Yeats's Sanguineous Rhythms 146(23) ``The subject of which I am most ignorant'' 146(3) Monotonous Fire 149(3) The Bull and the Nightingale 152(3) Haunting the Edge of Trance 155(3) Ancient Salt 158(6) Those Images That Waken in the Blood 164(5) Singing the Crisis Itself 169(39) Cinematic Reversals; or, the Ghost of Abel in the Whale's Belly 172(5) Bad Breath and Ghost Limbs 177(5) Agents of Intensity Unrocking to a Pulse 182(2) Auguries of the Inaudible: Strange Hearts and Wing Beats 184(9) What Magic Drum? The Rhythms of Mummies, Vampires, Centaurs, and Butterflies 193(9) Alexander and the Books of Prosody 202(6) Williams's Measured Interventions 208(17) Measuring the Weather with Euclid and Einstein 211(5) Angelic Cubes and Cubist Angels 216(9) Notes 225(30) Bibliography 255(12) Index 267