The New Ezra Pound Studies

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

Mark Byron (Edited by)

9781108499019, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 November 2019

302 pages, 1 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.8 x 2 cm, 0.56 kg

'The essay is informative and will be useful to readers interested in modernist publishing culture and book history. It also contains a substantial amount of unpublished material from Pound's archives, much of which is intelligently analyzed.' Robert Harris, Journal of Modern Literature

This book develops key advances in Pound studies, responding to newly available primary sources and recent methodological developments in associated fields. It is divided into three parts. Part I addresses the state of Pound's texts, both those upon which he relied for source material and those he produced in manuscript and print. Part II provides a comprehensive overview of the relation between Pound's poetry and translations and scholarship in East Asian studies. Part III examines the radical reconception of Pound's cultural and political activities throughout his career, and his continuing impact, a re-assessment made possible by recent controversial scholarship as well as new directions in literary and cultural theory. Pound's wide-ranging intellectual, cultural, and aesthetic interests are given new analytic treatment, with an emphasis on how recent developments in gender and sexuality studies, medieval historiography, textual genetics, sound studies, visual cultures, and other fields can develop an understanding of Pound's poetry and prose.

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'.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literature: history & criticism [DS], Poetry [DC]