Book contents
- The New Ezra Pound Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Ezra Pound Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Key to Abbreviations
- Editor’s Introduction
- Part I Pound’s Texts
- Chapter 1 Classical Literature
- Chapter 2 Early Medieval Philosophy and Textuality
- Chapter 3 Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos
- Chapter 4 ‘Scoured and Cleansed’
- Chapter 5 The Visual Field
- Chapter 6 Texts of The Cantos and Theories of Literature
- Chapter 7 Pound and Influence
- Part II Ezra Pound and Asia
- Part III Culture and Politics
- Index
- References
Chapter 3 - Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos
The Promise and the Limits of the Archive
from Part I - Pound’s Texts
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Book contents
- The New Ezra Pound Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Ezra Pound Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Key to Abbreviations
- Editor’s Introduction
- Part I Pound’s Texts
- Chapter 1 Classical Literature
- Chapter 2 Early Medieval Philosophy and Textuality
- Chapter 3 Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos
- Chapter 4 ‘Scoured and Cleansed’
- Chapter 5 The Visual Field
- Chapter 6 Texts of The Cantos and Theories of Literature
- Chapter 7 Pound and Influence
- Part II Ezra Pound and Asia
- Part III Culture and Politics
- Index
- References
Summary
Writing in Ezra Pound and Referentiality, the poet Bob Perelman notes that ‘we have been living in … the Golden Age of Pound Studies’ in which ‘Pound’s already-published writing was read assiduously; much of the huge bulk of his other public and private writing was published; the ramifications of his references were exfoliated, his ellipses were spelled out, the ideograms were translated’. So why, he (provocatively) asks, has it not ‘become increasingly possible and even easy to read Pound’? Perelman’s question, as Pound’s papers continue to surface, becomes ever more pertinent. What in particular has been the value of Pound’s manuscript materials for reading his poems? I wish to suggest that it has been considerable, but also that it does not and can never absolve readers of their critical obligations or resolve certain fundamental ambiguities in Pound’s work.
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