Ezra Pound in the Present Essays on Pound's Contemporaneity
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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.
This provocative collection includes essays by both established and emerging scholars who engage what one of the contributors, Christoper Bush, calls "the proximity of what is admirable and what is execrable in [Pound's] work." Many of Pound's concerns—finance capitalism, the US's Founding Fathers, what is meant by "world" literature, the US and East Asia—are also present concerns, and Pound's particular blindness and insights regarding those concerns may illuminate today's readers. Different readers will value different essays in this volume. For this reviewer, the strongest contributions are Charles Altieri's on Pound's imagist poems and the "epiphanic model" of much contemporary poetry; Bush's on Japan's "mediation" of China for Pound; Christine Froula's on the "triptych" of the <i>Pisan Cantos</i>, <i>Sextus Propertius</i>, and <i>Mauberley</i>; and C. D. Blanton's on J. D. Keynes, Major Douglas, and the <i>Fifth Decade of Cantos</i> … This collection of essays will help readers think about Pound's work in fresh ways. Summing Up: Highly recommended.
CHOICE
‘An enclosure for stray animals,’ Pound quipped of his name. Eight cutting-edge readers of his work have been here editorially gathered into discussion, less to define an enclosure than to open out onto a series of contemporary critical fields that situate Pound where he has always belonged—amid the changing reaches of the present, bringing news, good or bad, that stays news.
Richard Sieburth, Professor of French, English, and Comparative Literature, New York University, USA, and editor of New Selected Poems and Translations by Ezra Pound
This is a book we have been waiting for a long time: a volume exploring Ezra Pound’s significance for our life <i>now</i>. These illuminating essays are pioneer work: they offer critiques of Pound’s poetry and criticism in the contexts of globalization, digital culture, East Asia, and capitalism, giving scholars unexpected opportunities of evaluating contemporary theories of reading, university disciplines, theories of value, and economic phenomena such as the current banking crisis. The outstanding scholars reunited in this collection have cut paths in the wilderness so that we may follow. We owe them gratitude.
Roxana Preda, Associate Lecturer in English and American Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Chair of the Ezra Pound Society
Pound studies often repeat the command to 'Make it new!' as a kind of catechism, but this collection actually does it. Avoiding mechanical repetitions of over-familiar truisms, these essays set in motion Pound’s conviction that 'we do <i>not </i>know the past in chronological sequence... what we know we know by ripples and spiral eddying out from us and our time.' Park, Stasi, and their contributors honor Pound by reimagining him for the 21st century.
Michael Coyle, Professor of English, Colgate University, USA
[The book] is a crucial and timely intervention in Pound Studies, assessing as well as galvanising a new phase of innovative work in the field.
Make It New (The Ezra Pound Society)
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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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.