New Ezra Pound Studies - Studie

List of contents

Editor's introduction Mark Byron; Part I. Pound's Texts: 1. Classical literature Leah Culligan Flack; 2. Early medieval philosophy and textuality Mark Byron; 3. Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos: the promise and the limits of the archive Ronald Bush; 4. 'Scoured and cleansed': Ezra Pound and musical composition Josh Epstein; 5. The visual field: beyond vorticism Rebecca Beasley; 6. Texts of The Cantos and theories of literature Michael Kindellan; 7. Pound and influence Richard Parker; Part II. Ezra Pound and Asia: 8. Pound's representation of the Chinese frontiers: from the war zone to the green world Akitoshi Nagahata; 9. 'A treasure like nothing we have in the occident': Ezra Pound and Japanese literature Andrew Houwen; 10. Ezra Pound and Chinese poetry Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas; Part III. Culture and Politics: 11. The transnational turn Josephine Park; 12. Pound, gender, sexuality Carrie J. Preston; 13. Italian fascism Anderson Araujo; 14. Late Cantos, 'Aesopian language' states' rights, and John Randolph of Roanoke Alec Marsh; 15. Copyright Archie Henderson; 16. The temple and the scaffolding: The Cantos of Ezra Pound and digital culture Roxana Preda; Afterword. 'Read Him'.

About the author

Mark Byron is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Sydney and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. His research interests in modern literature include China and Japan, digital textuality, and literature and history. His current project, Modernism and the Early Middle Ages, has produced to date the monograph Ezra Pound's Eriugena (2014), winner of the Ezra Pound Society Book Prize in 2014, and a co-edited dossier on Samuel Beckett and the Middle Ages in the Journal of Beckett Studies (2016). He is the President of the Ezra Pound Society.

Summary

These essays develop key advances in Pound studies. They respond to the new availability of primary sources and bring new insights to the analysis of Pound's poetry and prose. The essays integrate recent developments in literary studies, such as transnationalism, gender and sexuality, sound studies, and textual genetics.

Product details

• Authors: Mark (University of Sydney) Byron
• Assisted by: Mark Byron (Editor), Mark (University of Sydney) Byron (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781108499019
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49901-9
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Twenty-First-Century Critical; Twenty-First-Century Critical; Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Irland, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, POETRY / General, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets