Title Orientalism and modernism : the legacy of China in Pound and Williams / Zhaoming Qian

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) : illustrations Contents Prologue: The Place of the Orient in the Modernist Movement -- I. Pound's Road to China. 1. "Getting Orient from All Quarters": Binyon, Upward, Fenollosa. 2. Via Giles: Qu Yuan, Liu Che, Lady Ban. 3. China Contra Greece in Des Imagistes. 4. The Pound-Fenollosa Venture: An Overview. 5. Via Fenollosa: Taoism versus Vorticism in Cathay. 6. Imitating Wang Wei: Toward The Cantos -- II. Williams' Early Encounter with the Chinese. 7. "Give Me Your Face, Yang Kue Fei!" 8. In the Shadow of Bo Juyi: Sour Grapes. 9. Escaping the Old Mode in Spring and All. 10. In Pursuit of Minimal, Agrammatical Form -- Epilogue: The Beginning of a Literary Era -- Appendix I: A Transcript of Fenollosa's Notes for "Taking Leave of a Friend" -- Appendix II: A Typescript of Pound's Drafts for Eight Poems of Wang Wei -- Appendix III: A Descriptive List of Works on Oriental Subjects from Williams' Library Now at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Elsewhere Summary Chinese culture held a well-known fascination for modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. What is less known but is made fully clear by Zhaoming Qian is the degree to which oriental culture made these poets the modernists they became. This ambitious and illuminating study shows that Orientalism, no less than French symbolism and Italian culture, is a constitutive element of Modernism. Consulting rare and unpublished materials, Qian traces Pound's and Williams's remarkable dialogues with the great Chinese poets--Qu Yuan, Li Bo, Wang Wei, and Bo Juyi--between 1913 and 1923. His investigation reveals that these exchanges contributed more than topical and thematic ideas to the Americans' work and suggests that their progressively modernist style is directly linked to a steadily growing contact and affinity for similar Chinese styles. He demonstrates, for example, how such influences as the ethics of pictorial representation, the style of ellipsis, allusion, and juxtaposition, and the Taoist/Zen-Buddhist notion of nonbeing/being made their way into Pound's pre-Fenollosan Chinese adaptations, Cathay, Lustra, and the Early Cantos, as well as Williams's Sour Grapes and Spring and All. Developing a new interpretation of important work by Pound and Williams, Orientalism and Modernism fills a significant gap in accounts of American Modernism, which can be seen here for the first time in its truly multicultural character Analysis English poetry Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Knowledge -- China Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 -- Knowledge -- China SUBJECT Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 fast Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 fast Pound, Ezra, (1885-1972) -- Et la Chine. ram Williams, William Carlos, (1883-1963) -- Et la Chine. ram Subject American literature -- Chinese influences American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism American literature -- Asian influences Modernism (Literature) -- United States Exoticism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. POETRY -- American -- General. American literature -- Chinese influences American poetry Exoticism in literature Literature Modernism (Literature) Oriëntalisme. Modernisme (cultuur) Letterkunde. Culturele betrekkingen. Poésie américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique. Exotisme -- Dans la littérature. Orientalisme (littérature) Littérature américaine. SUBJECT China -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024204 Subject China United States Chine -- Romans. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822397410 0822397412

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