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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition

Fenollosa, Ernest
Pound, Ezra
Saussy, Haun

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Letters & EssaysLiterary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 082322869X
ISBN13: 9780823228690
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Jan 7 2011
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.60 Width: 7.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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

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