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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry A Critical 1st Edition by Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Jonathan Stalling, Lucas Klein, Haun Saussy ISBN 0823238342 9780823238347

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Author(s): Ernest Fenollosa (editor); Ezra Pound (editor); Jonathan Stalling (editor); Lucas Klein (editor); Haun Saussy (editor)
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Year: 2009
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ISBN 10: 0823238342 
ISBN 13: 9780823238347
Author: Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Jonathan Stalling, Lucas Klein, Haun Saussy

First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa’s essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted 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 America
and 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.

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry A Critical 1st Table of contents:

Preface

  • 1.1 About This Edition

  • 1.2 The Legacy of Ernest Fenollosa

  • 1.3 Ezra Pound’s Editorial Influence

  • 1.4 Notes on the Text and Sources

Introduction

  • 2.1 The Discovery of a Poetics of the Ideogram

  • 2.2 Fenollosa’s Encounter with Chinese Language

  • 2.3 The Essay’s Impact on Modernism and Imagism

  • 2.4 Reconsidering Fenollosa in Contemporary Scholarship

Part I: The Essay — The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

(By Ernest Fenollosa, edited by Ezra Pound)

  • Chapter 1: The Nature of the Written Character

    • 1.1 The Relationship Between Thought and Image

    • 1.2 The Chinese Character as a Representation of Action

    • 1.3 Visual and Conceptual Aspects of Language

  • Chapter 2: The Poetic Power of the Chinese Language

    • 2.1 Words as Living Metaphors

    • 2.2 The Grammar of Images

    • 2.3 The Economy and Dynamism of the Ideogram

  • Chapter 3: The Ideogrammic Method

    • 3.1 Combining Images to Express Abstract Ideas

    • 3.2 The Poetic Implications of Juxtaposition

    • 3.3 Influence on Western Poetic Form and Thought

  • Chapter 4: The Role of the Poet and the Artist

    • 4.1 The Poet as Interpreter of Nature’s Language

    • 4.2 Symbolism and Realism in Chinese Poetics

    • 4.3 The Bridge Between Language and the World

Part II: Critical Commentary and Scholarly Essays

  • Chapter 5: Ezra Pound’s Editorial Hand

    • 5.1 Pound’s Revisions and Interpretations

    • 5.2 The Essay’s Role in the Imagist Movement

    • 5.3 Fenollosa’s Influence on Pound’s Cantos

  • Chapter 6: The Chinese Language and Western Misreadings

    • 6.1 Linguistic Realities vs. Romantic Appropriations

    • 6.2 Reassessing the Ideogram in Modern Linguistics

    • 6.3 The Ethics of Translation and Cultural Exchange

  • Chapter 7: Modern Reflections on Fenollosa’s Theory

    • 7.1 The Ideogram as Cognitive and Poetic Model

    • 7.2 The Visual Turn in Literary Theory

    • 7.3 Contemporary Chinese and Western Perspectives

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