The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition Contributor(s): Fenollosa, Ernest (Author), Pound, Ezra (Author), Stalling, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 082322869X ISBN-13: 9780823228690 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | Asian - Chinese - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
Dewey: 808.1 |
LCCN: 2010537483 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 7.8" W x 8.9" (1.14 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
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Publisher Description: 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Pound, Ezra: - Ezra Pound (1884-1972) was a leading Modernist poet and the driving force behind Imagism and Vorticism.Klein, Lucas: - LUCAS KLEIN is a graduate student in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University.Fenollosa, Ernest: - ERNEST FRANCISCO FENOLLOSA (1853-1908) taught at the Imperial University of Tokyo. In 1890 he became Asian curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.Stalling, Jonathan: - JONATHAN STALLING is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. He is a co-editor of The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition (Fordham).Saussy, Haun: - Haun Saussy is University Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He won the René Wellek Prize for Comparative Literature (for the second time) for his most recent book, Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (Oxford, 2018). His book The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies (Fordham, 2016) was awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies. |