Orientalism and Modernism

by Qian, Zhaoming

• ISBN13: 9780822316572
• ISBN10: 0822316579
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"Zhaoming Qian offers a strong analysis of the influence of Chinese culture on the early work of Pound and Williams. I particularly admire the ability of the author to integrate discussions of art as well as literature. It is clear that the aesthetic of China which appealed to the Modernists was visual as much as verbal, and this dual emphasis is well-captured."--Reed Way Dasenbrock, New Mexico State University

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
A Note on Transliteration	xv
Prologue: The Place of the Orient in the Modernist Movement	1	(6)
I POUND'S ROAD TO CHINA	7	(104)
``Getting Orient from All Quarters'': Binyon, Upward, Fenollosa	9	(14)
Via Giles: Qu Yuan, Liu Che, Lady Ban	23	(25)
China Contra Greece in Des Imagistes	48	(8)
The Pound-Fenollosa Venture: An Overview	56	(9)
Via Fenollosa: Taoism versus Vorticism in Cathay	65	(23)
Imitating Wang Wei: Toward The Cantos	88	(23)
II WILLIAMS' EARLY ENCOUNTER WITH THE CHINESE	111	(55)
``Give Me Your Face, Yang Kue Fei!''	113	(15)
In the Shadow of Bo Juyi: Sour Grapes	128	(14)
Escaping the Old Mode in Spring and All	142	(14)
In Pursuit of Minimal, Agrammatical Form	156	(10)
Epilogue: The Beginning of a Literary Era	166	(3)
Appendix I: A Transcript of Fenollosa's Notes for ``Taking Leave of a Friend''	169	(2)
Appendix II: A Typescript of Pound's Drafts for Eight Poems of Wang Wei	171	(8)
Appendix III: A Descriptive List of Works on Oriental Subjects from Williams' Library Now at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Elsewhere	179	(2)
Notes	181	(24)
Works Cited	205	(8)
Index	213