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12579s17v3x	Loren K. Higbee	The Poetics of Fragmentation: Shared Modernity in Petrarch, Eliot, and Pound	2014		.txt	text/plain	177	5	40	Relying on close readings of their works, principally the lyric poems of Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta or Canzoniere, Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land, and Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and the Cantos, I describe and analyze a fascination with the literary fragment, which includes their heavy reliance on allusion, their emphasis on repetition and the passage of time, their fascination with personae and masks, and their frequent images of internal rupture and dissolution. Petrarch, a poet who pioneered a lyric subjectivity that would heavily influence subsequent European literature and a scholar who sought to bridge the gap between the ancients and his own generation, has often been called the first modern man.	cache/12579s17v3x.txt	txt/12579s17v3x.txt