The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound

by Ira B. Nadel

• ISBN13: 9780521853910
• ISBN10: 0521853915
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Ezra Pound is one of the most visible and influential poets of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most complex, his poetry containing historical and mythical allusions, experiments of form and style and often controversial political views. Yet Pound's life and work continue to fascinate. This Introduction is designed to help students reading Pound for the first time. Pound scholar Ira B. Nadel provides a guide to the rich webs of allusion and stylistic borrowings and innovations in Pound's writing. He offers a clear overview of Pound's life, works, contexts and reception history and his multidimensional career as a poet, translator, critic, editor, anthologist and impresario, a career that placed him at the heart of literary modernism. This invaluable and accessible introduction explains the huge contribution Pound made to the development of modernism in the early twentieth century.

Author Biography

Ira B. Nadel is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Spatial, Geometric, and Architectural Thinking: The Big Picture	p. 1
Developmental Perspectives on Spatial and Geometric Thinking	p. 33
Children as Architects: The Identification of Architectural Principles Underlying Young Children's Geometric Constructions	p. 67
Contextual Observation: The Assessment for Measuring Spatial, Geometric, and Architectural Thinking of Young Children (SPAGAR)	p. 95
Age, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status Factors in Spatial, Geometric, and Architectural Thinking	p. 121
Constructing Alone: Cases 1 and 2	p. 145
Constructing Interactively: Cases 3 and 4	p. 179
Beyond the Blocks: Implementing Praxis	p. 207
References	p. 229
Index	p. 249
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