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Genius, Appropriation and Transnational Collaboration in Ezra Pound’s Cathay

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Vali A.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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2018

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issue 27/1

97-110

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When we discuss the cross-cultural relationships of Euro-American modernists we often fall between the poles of either celebrating the ‘coming together of traditions’ or suspiciously decrying the power play involved. A case in point is the divergent critical understanding most often posited of Ezra Pound’s relationship to the materials he produced from Ernest Fenollosa’s notes – notably Classical Chinese poetry in the form of Cathay (1915). The first position is Hugh Kenner’s who holds that its meaning, its primary function, was as an anti-WWI volume, rather than as any representation of Chinese poetry or an extension of Imagism (1971, 202–204). In seeming opposition to this vision of an ideal aesthetic come at by the application of genius, we have those who highlight the source material of Fenollosa’s notes to discuss various modes of Pound as translator. Interestingly, these critics, who resist the Kennerian celebration of Poundian genius and insist that Pound is engaged here in an act of translation, “essentially [...] appropriative” (Xie 232), or otherwise, also reinforce a reading whereby “the precise nature of the translator’s authorship remains unformulated, and so the notion of authorial originality continues” (Venuti 6). This is the issue I wish to address when we study the disparities between Fenollosa’s notes and the Cathay poems, i.e. Pound’s own choices with regard to those poems’ content, as a key chapter in the study of transnational collaboration.

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Milczące wiersze. Obraz i podmiot na tle ekopoetyki

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Stusek M.

Studia Europaea Gnesnensia

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2018

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issue 18

115-128

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The article discusses the ecopoetic potential inherent in small lyrical forms which employ a peculiar technique of showing the “picture” of the external world. The poetics of the “silent poems” consists in concealing the presence of the subject and presenting the reader with a bare fragment of reality, which in the analyzed instances involve non-human nature. The author, examining the pieces by Jacek Gutorow, Bartosz Suwiński and Klara Nowakowska, outlines a poetic form in which the equivalence of each element of nature displaces the anthropocentric vision of the world. The study sets out from the old Japanese genre of haiku and Anglo-American imagism. The concept of ecopoetics, suggested by Julia Fiedorczuk and Gerardo Beltrán provide the core context for these deliberations.

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The paper aims to show the ecopoetic potential of minimalist poems, in which the lyrical subject remains out of sight. The text discusses poetic techniques of drawing a bare picture of reality, which have the capacity to enact a novel, non-anthropocentric approach to non-human nature. The author combines interpretive practice with the concept of ecopoetics and literary genology.

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Aesthetic and Methodologic Resources of Ezra Pound’s Poetry

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Gherasim G. C.

American, British and Canadian Studies Journal

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2012

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vol. 19

88-103

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The study of The Cantos, one of the most complex and difficult works belonging to literary modernism makes possible, precisely due to this observation, the exploration of a series of characteristics and dimensions of Pound’s work that have either remained in a programmatic stage or should be revisited more closely in order for their meanings to be discerned. ‘Analyticity’ and ‘scientism’ can be considered relevant characteristics of Pound’s work, with both aesthetic and methodologic meanings. The present study aims at investigating these two dimensions of Pound’s poetry as they appear in the second and the fourth decades of the 20th century. In conclusion the question is whether Pound’s analyticity and scientism could still be considered valuable from an aesthetic or methodologic point of view.

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Genius, Appropriation and Transnational Collaboration in Ezra Pound’s Cathay

Milczące wiersze. Obraz i podmiot na tle ekopoetyki

Aesthetic and Methodologic Resources of Ezra Pound’s Poetry