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Orientalism and Modernism : The Legacy of China in Pound and Williams /

Chinese culture held a well-known fascination for modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. What is less known but is made fully clear by Zhaoming Qian is the degree to which oriental culture made these poets the modernists they became. This ambitious and illuminating study shows...

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Autor principal: Qian, Zhaoming (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Prologue: The Place of the Orient in the Modernist Movement
  • I. Pound's Road to China. 1. "Getting Orient from All Quarters": Binyon, Upward, Fenollosa. 2. Via Giles: Qu Yuan, Liu Che, Lady Ban. 3. China Contra Greece in Des Imagistes. 4. The Pound-Fenollosa Venture: An Overview. 5. Via Fenollosa: Taoism versus Vorticism in Cathay. 6. Imitating Wang Wei: Toward The Cantos
  • II. Williams' Early Encounter with the Chinese. 7. "Give Me Your Face, Yang Kue Fei!" 8. In the Shadow of Bo Juyi: Sour Grapes. 9. Escaping the Old Mode in Spring and All. 10. In Pursuit of Minimal, Agrammatical Form
  • Epilogue: The Beginning of a Literary Era
  • Appendix I: A Transcript of Fenollosa's Notes for "Taking Leave of a Friend"
  • Appendix II: A Typescript of Pound's Drafts for Eight Poems of Wang Wei
  • Appendix III: A Descriptive List of Works on Oriental Subjects from Williams' Library Now at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Elsewhere.