[PDF] Ezra Pound And The Appropriation Of Chinese Poetry eBook

Author : Ming Xie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2021-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000526224

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First published in 1999. The subject of this book is the translation and appropriation of Chinese poetry by some English and American writers in the early decades of this century. The author explores the be concerned as much with English translation of Chinese poetry per se as with the relationship between this body of translation from the Chinese and the developing poetics and practices of what is usually referred to as "Imagism," as much with the question of historical influence or ascription as with certain interpretive and critical aspects of this correlative relationship. Focusing on the direct influence of Chinese poetry upon the theory and practice of Imagism, attributing to Imagist poets in general and Ezra Pound in particular the perception in Chinese poetry of the essential qualities and principles for rejuvenating English poetry in the early decades of the century.

Author : Ernest Fenollosa
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,30 MB
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0823228703

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First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa’s essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that continues to shape our poetic and stylistic preferences: the idea that poems consist primarily of images; the idea that the sentence form with active verb mirrors relations of natural force. But previous editions of the essay represent Pound’s understanding—it is fair to say, his appropriation—of the text. Fenollosa’s manuscripts, in the Beinecke Library of Yale University, allow us to see this essay in a different light, as a document of early, sustained cultural interchange between North America and East Asia. Pound’s editing of the essay obscured two important features, here restored to view: Fenollosa’s encounter with Tendai Buddhism and Buddhist ontology, and his concern with the dimension of sound in Chinese poetry. This book is the definitive critical edition of Fenollosa’s important work. After a substantial Introduction, the text as edited by Pound is presented, together with his notes and plates. At the heart of the edition is the first full publication of the essay as Fenollosa wrote it, accompanied by the many diagrams, characters, and notes Fenollosa (and Pound) scrawled on the verso pages. Pound’s deletions, insertions, and alterations to Fenollosa’s sometimes ornate prose are meticulously captured, enabling readers to follow the quasi-dialogue between Fenollosa and his posthumous editor. Earlier drafts and related talks reveal the developmentof Fenollosa’s ideas about culture, poetry, and translation. Copious multilingual annotation is an important feature of the edition. This masterfully edited book will be an essential resource for scholars and poets and a starting point for a renewed discussion of the multiple sources of American modernist poetry.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN :

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Cathay is a compilation of traditional Chinese poems translated into English by poet Ezra Pound. These fifteen poems are seen less as strict translations and more as new pieces in their own right.

Author : Zhaoming Qian
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 2003-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472068296

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DIVExplores Ezra Pound's long fascination with Chinese literature and culture /div

Author : Mark Byron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108499015

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Essays on recent developments in Pound scholarship and research, including newly available primary sources and methodological advances in cognate fields.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823281060

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An extensively annotated edition of Ezra Pound's Chinese translations in Cathay (1915) and Lustra (1916) along with unabridged transcriptions of his sources from Ernest Fenollosa's notebooks, along with original texts in Chinese. Includes Pound's article on "Chinese Poetry," and essays by Haun Saussy, Christopher Bush, and Timothy Billings.

Author : Timothy Yu (Professor of literature)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Chinese Americans
ISBN : 9781934254615

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"There are one hundred kinds of Chinese silence: the silence of unknown grandfathers; the silence of borrowed Buddha and rebranded Confucius; the silence of alluring stereotypes and exotic reticence. These poems make those silences heard. Writing back to an orientalist tradition that has defined modern American poetry, these 100 Chinese silences unmask the imagined Asias of American literature, revealing the spectral Asian presence that haunts our most eloquent lyrics and self-satisfied wisdom. Rewriting poets from Ezra Pound and Marianne Moore to Gary Snyder and Billy Collins, this book is a sharply critical and wickedly humorous travesty of the modern canon, excavating the Asian (American) bones buried in our poetic language." -- from publishers website.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 019923860X

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No literary figure of the past century - in America or perhaps in any other Western country - is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. To this day, scholars and students still find it puzzling that this influential poet spent a lifetime incorporating Chinese language, literature, history, and philosophy into Anglo-American modernism. How well did Pound know Chinese? Was he guided exclusively by eighteenth to nineteenth-century orientalists inhis various Chinese projects? Did he seek guidance from Chinese peers? Those who have written about Pound and China have failed to address this fundamental question. No one could do so just a few years ago when the letters Pound wrote to his Chinese friends were sealed or had not been found. This bookbrings together 162 revealing letters between Pound and nine Chinese intellectuals, eighty-five of them newly opened up and none previously printed. Accompanied by editorial introductions and notes, these selected letters make available for the first time the forgotten stories of Pound and his Chinese friends. They illuminate a dimension in Pound's career that has been neglected: his dynamic interaction with people from China over a span of forty-five years from 1914 until 1959. This selectionwill also be a documentary record of a leading modernist's unparalleled efforts to pursue what he saw as the best of China, including both his stumbles and his triumphs.