This collection of essays brings together more than a decade of work on the poetry of Ezra Pound and particularly his modern epic The Cantos. These essays engage with recent developments in such fields as early medieval studies, modernism studies, Chinese and Japanese studies, textual criticism, literature and music, and digital scholarly editing to shed new light on Pound's sources, his scholarly and poetic techniques, and his relevance to contemporary thinking about poetry, editorial methods, and global intellectual history.
Pages
310
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Ibidem Press
Release
October 31, 2017
ISBN
3838210816
ISBN 13
9783838210810
Ezra Pound's Atlas: Essays on Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Textuality in the Cantos
This collection of essays brings together more than a decade of work on the poetry of Ezra Pound and particularly his modern epic The Cantos. These essays engage with recent developments in such fields as early medieval studies, modernism studies, Chinese and Japanese studies, textual criticism, literature and music, and digital scholarly editing to shed new light on Pound's sources, his scholarly and poetic techniques, and his relevance to contemporary thinking about poetry, editorial methods, and global intellectual history.