The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry : A Critical Edition / Lucas Klein, Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa, Jonathan Stalling; ed. by Haun Saussy.
2009
PL1171 .F39 2008eb
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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry : A Critical Edition / Lucas Klein, Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa, Jonathan Stalling; ed. by Haun Saussy.
Author
Fenollosa, Ernest, author.
ISBN
9780823238347
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2009]
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©2009
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource (240 p.)
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10.1515/9780823238347 doi
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PL1171 .F39 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
808.1
Summary
First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often "ed statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that continues to shape our poetic and stylistic preferences: the idea that poems consist primarily of images; the idea that the sentence form with active verb mirrors relations of natural force. But previous editions of the essay represent Pound's understanding-it is fair to say, his appropriation-of the text. Fenollosa's manuscripts, in the Beinecke Library of Yale University, allow us to see this essay in a different light, as a document of early, sustained cultural interchange between North Americaand East Asia.Pound's editing of the essay obscured two important features, here restored to view: Fenollosa's encounter with Tendai Buddhism and Buddhist ontology, and his concern with the dimension of sound in Chinese poetry.This book is the definitive critical edition of Fenollosa's important work. After a substantial Introduction, the text as edited by Pound is presented, together with his notes and plates. At the heart of the edition is the first full publication of the essay as Fenollosa wrote it, accompanied by the many diagrams, characters, and notes Fenollosa (and Pound) scrawled on the verso pages. Pound's deletions, insertions, and alterations to Fenollosa's sometimes ornate prose are meticulously captured, enabling readers to follow the quasi-dialogue between Fenollosa and his posthumous editor. Earlier drafts and related talks reveal the developmentof Fenollosa's ideas about culture, poetry, and translation. Copious multilingual annotation is an important feature of the edition.This masterfully edited book will be an essential resource for scholars and poets and a starting point for a renewed discussion of the multiple sources of American modernist poetry.
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Fenollosa, Ernest, contributor.
Klein, Lucas, author.
Pound, Ezra, author.
Pound, Ezra, contributor.
Saussy, Haun, contributor.
Saussy, Haun, editor.
Klein, Lucas, author.
Pound, Ezra, author.
Pound, Ezra, contributor.
Saussy, Haun, contributor.
Saussy, Haun, editor.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Conventions
Preface
Fenollosa Compounded: A Discrimination
The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: An Ars Poetica
Appendix: With Some Notes by a Very Ignorant Man
The Chinese Written Language as a Medium for Poetry
Synopsis of Lectures on Chinese and Japanese Poetry
Chinese and Japanese Poetry. Draft of Lecture I. Vol. II.
Chinese and Japanese Traits
The Coming Fusion of East and West
Chinese Ideals
[Retrospect on the Fenollosa Papers]
Notes
Works Cited
Contents
List of Illustrations
Conventions
Preface
Fenollosa Compounded: A Discrimination
The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: An Ars Poetica
Appendix: With Some Notes by a Very Ignorant Man
The Chinese Written Language as a Medium for Poetry
Synopsis of Lectures on Chinese and Japanese Poetry
Chinese and Japanese Poetry. Draft of Lecture I. Vol. II.
Chinese and Japanese Traits
The Coming Fusion of East and West
Chinese Ideals
[Retrospect on the Fenollosa Papers]
Notes
Works Cited