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Book SynopsisThese essays develop key advances in Pound studies. They respond to the new availability of primary sources and bring new insights to the analysis of Pound's poetry and prose. The essays integrate recent developments in literary studies, such as transnationalism, gender and sexuality, sound studies, and textual genetics.
Trade Review'The essay is informative and will be useful to readers interested in modernist publishing culture and book history. It also contains a substantial amount of unpublished material from Pound's archives, much of which is intelligently analyzed.' Robert Harris, Journal of Modern Literature
Table of ContentsEditor's introduction Mark Byron; Part I. Pound's Texts: 1. Classical literature Leah Culligan Flack; 2. Early medieval philosophy and textuality Mark Byron; 3. Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos: the promise and the limits of the archive Ronald Bush; 4. 'Scoured and cleansed': Ezra Pound and musical composition Josh Epstein; 5. The visual field: beyond vorticism Rebecca Beasley; 6. Texts of The Cantos and theories of literature Michael Kindellan; 7. Pound and influence Richard Parker; Part II. Ezra Pound and Asia: 8. Pound's representation of the Chinese frontiers: from the war zone to the green world Akitoshi Nagahata; 9. 'A treasure like nothing we have in the occident': Ezra Pound and Japanese literature Andrew Houwen; 10. Ezra Pound and Chinese poetry Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas; Part III. Culture and Politics: 11. The transnational turn Josephine Park; 12. Pound, gender, sexuality Carrie J. Preston; 13. Italian fascism Anderson Araujo; 14. Late Cantos, 'Aesopian language' states' rights, and John Randolph of Roanoke Alec Marsh; 15. Copyright Archie Henderson; 16. The temple and the scaffolding: The Cantos of Ezra Pound and digital culture Roxana Preda; Afterword. 'Read Him'.
