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“In an Instant of Time”: The Imagist Perception and the Phenomenology of the “Upsurge” of the Present in Ezra Pound’s Cantos

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Ma, MQ. (2007). “In an Instant of Time”: The Imagist Perception and the Phenomenology of the “Upsurge” of the Present in Ezra Pound’s Cantos. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Temporality in Life as Seen Through Literature. Analecta Husserliana, vol 86. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5331-2_5

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