Was Ezra Pound the first theorist of world literature? Or did he inaugurate a form of comparative literature that could save the discipline from its untimely demise? Would he have welcomed the 2008 financial crisis? What might he say about America's economic dependence on China? Would he have been appalled at the rise of the "digital humanities," or found it amenable to his own quasi-social scientific views about the role of literature in society? What, if anything, would he find to value in today's economic and aesthetic discourses? Ezra Pound in the Present collects new essays by prominent…mehr
Was Ezra Pound the first theorist of world literature? Or did he inaugurate a form of comparative literature that could save the discipline from its untimely demise? Would he have welcomed the 2008 financial crisis? What might he say about America's economic dependence on China? Would he have been appalled at the rise of the "digital humanities," or found it amenable to his own quasi-social scientific views about the role of literature in society? What, if anything, would he find to value in today's economic and aesthetic discourses? Ezra Pound in the Present collects new essays by prominent scholars of modernist poetics to engage the relevance of Pound's work for our times, testing whether his literature was, as he hoped it would be, "news that stays news."Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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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
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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