Ezra Pound in the Present Essays on Pound's Contemporaneity

Josephine Park is Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics (2008).

Paul Stasi is Associate Professor of English at SUNY Albany, USA. He is the author of Modernism, Imperialism and the Historical Sense (2012) and the co-editor, with Jennifer Greiman, of The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire (Bloomsbury, 2013). His work has appeared in the James Joyce Quarterly, Historical Materialism, Comparative Literature, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, Twentieth Century Literature and La Habana Elegante.

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

I. Pound's Methods
1. Why Pound's Imagist Poems Still Matter
Charles Altieri (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
2. Not-So-Distant Reading
Josephine Park (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
3. Paleolithic Media: Deep Time and Ezra Pound's Methods
Aaron Jaffe (University of Louisville, USA)

II. Pound's Worlds
4. “I am all for the triangle”: The Geopolitical Aesthetic of Pound's Japan
Christopher Bush (Northwestern University, USA)
5. Ezra Pound and the Globalization of Literature
Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
6. Ezra Pound and the Comparative Literature of the Present, or, Triptych Rome/London/Pisa
Christine Froula (Northwestern University, USA)

II. Pound's Value
7. Ezra Pound and the Critique of Value
Paul Stasi (University at Albany, USA)
8. Ezra Pound's Effective Demand: Keynes, Causality, and The Cantos
C.D. Blanton (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

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