Cross-Cultural Ezra Pound by Baumann, Walter; Gery, John; McKnight, David;

Short description:

This volume offers new interpretations of
Pound’s poetics, as well as new perspectives on his critical reception globally.
It covers Pound’s work from
his beginnings as a young poet in Philadelphia in the first decade of the
century through his most productive years as a poet, critic, and translator to
the first critical treatments of his work in the 1940s and 50s, and on to
translations of The Cantos spanning
the last fifty years.

Long description:

This volume gathers fifteen essays that offer new interpretations on
Pound’s poetics, as well as new perspectives on his critical reception globally.
It includes authors from nine different countries and covers Pound’s work from
his beginnings as a young poet in Philadelphia in the first decade of the
century through his most productive years as a poet, critic, and translator to
the first critical treatments of his work in the 1940s and 50s, and on to
translations of The Cantos spanning
the last fifty years. Although, in our own era, such terms as “cross-cultural
thinking,” “globalism,” “transnationalism,” and “internationalism” remain fluid
and can often stir controversy in literary studies, especially in discussion of
the impact of modernism, the place of Ezra Pound as a prominent modernist figure
worldwide has remained unquestioned throughout the last century.

Table of Contents:

Preface

            David McKnight

Introduction: Six Ways
a Sunday: The Cross-Cultural Realm of Ezra Pound

I. Pound’s
Cross-Cultural Genesis

1. Pound’s Modern
(Metrical) Education

            Ira Nadel               

2. The First Imagists

            William Pratt         

3. Pound and/or
Franklin: A Reading of Canto 31

            John Gery             

II. Pound’s Cross-Cultural Poetics

4. Pound’s Vorticist Theory and H.D.’s “Oread”

            Yoshiko Kita         

5. Fenollosa and Pound: The Authorship
Question of The Chinese Written Character
as a Medium for Poetry

            Lin Wei                 

6. Pound’s
Composition of Canto 16: “j’entendis des voix”

            John Beall   

7. The Genealogy of the China Cantos

            Kent Su                 

III. Pound
and Cross-Cultural Questions of Translation

 8. The Poetics of Queering Translation
in Ezra Pound’s Homage to Sextus
Propertius

      Christian
Bancroft 

 9. Rainer
Maria Gerhardt and Ezra Pound

            Walter Baumann 

10. “Cantos” or “Cantares”?
Pound’s Reception in Two Romance Languages

            Viorica Patea       

IV. Cross-Cultural
Perceptions of Pound and His Work

11. Ezra Pound and Caresse Crosby: From Black
Sun to Roccasinibalda

            Anne Conover     

12. Pound, Bergson, and the Vortex of Memory

            Jonathan
Pollock

13. Ritual and Performance in The Pisan Cantos and H.D.’s Trilogy

            Giuliana
Ferreccio

14. A Carthaginian Peace: Kenner, Watts &
the Founding of Pound Studies

            Michael Coyle