Ezra Pound & China Ezra Pound And China Project Muse Upcc Books

Explores Ezra Pound's long fascination with Chinese literature and culture | Ezra Pound and China, the first collection to explore the American poet's career-long relationship with China, considers how Pound's engagement with the Orient broadens the textual, cultural, and political boundaries of his modernism. The book's contributors discuss, among other topics, issues of cultural transmission; the influence of Pound's Chinese studies on twentieth-century poetics; the importance of his work to contemporary theories of translation; and the effects of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism on Pound's political and economic thought. Richly illustrated, the book draws readers closer to the heart of Pound's vision. Ezra Pound and China will become an invaluable resource to students and scholars of Pound, cultural studies, translation theory, poetics, Confucianism, and literary transmission and reception. Zhaoming Qian is Professor of English, the University of New Orleans. Contents Introduction / Zhaoming Qian Constructing the Orient: Pound's American Vision / Ira B. Nadel Cathay: What Sort of Translation? / Barry Ahearn The Beauties of Mistranslation: On Pound's English after Cathay / Christine Froula Painting into Poetry: Pound's Seven Lakes Canto / Zhaoming Qian Pound's Quest for Confucian Ideals: The Chinese History Cantos / Hong Sun Ideogram, "Right Naming," and the Authoritarian Streak / Peter Makin Confucius against Confusion: Ezra Pound and the Catholic Chaplain at Pisa / Wendy Stallard Flory Confucius Erased: The Missing Ideograms in The Pisan Cantos / Ronald Bush "Enigma" at the Heart of Paradise: Buddhism, Kuanon, and the Feminine Ideogram in The Cantos / Britton Gildersleeve "Why Not Spirits?"—"The Universe Is Alive": Ezra Pound, Joseph Rock, the Na Khi, and Plotinus / Emily Mitchell Wallace Poems / Patrizia De Rachewiltz, Yang Lian, Kim Jong-Gil Afterword: Kung Is to Pound As Is Water to Fishes / Mary De Rachewiltz Contributors Index Edited By Zhaoming Qian. Essays Originally Presented At The 18th International Ezra Pound Conference Held In Beijing, China, July 16-19, 1999. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.