Ezra Pound & China

by Qian, Zhaoming

• ISBN13: 9780472098293
• ISBN10: 0472098292
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Constructing the Orient: Pound's American Vision	p. 12
Cathay: What Sort of Translation?	p. 31
The Beauties of Mistranslation: On Pound's English after Cathay	p. 49
Painting into Poetry: Pound's Seven Lakes Canto	p. 72
Pound's Quest for Confucian Ideals: The Chinese History Cantos	p. 96
Ideogram, "Right Naming" and the Authoritarian Streak	p. 120
Confucius against Confusion: Ezra Pound and the Catholic Chaplain at Pisa	p. 143
Confucius Erased: The Missing Ideograms in The Pisan Cantos	p. 163
"Enigma" at the Heart of Paradise: Buddhism, Kuanon, and the Feminine Ideogram in The Cantos	p. 193
"Why Not Spirits?" - "The Universe Is Alive": Ezra Pound, Joseph Rock, the Na Khi, and Plotinus	p. 213
Poems	p. 278
Afterword: Kung Is to Pound As Is Water to Fishes	p. 282
Contributors	p. 291
Index	p. 293
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