The Temple and the Scaffolding

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Chapter 16 - The Temple and the Scaffolding

The Cantos of Ezra Pound and Digital Culture

from Part III - Culture and Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 October 2019

Roxana Preda

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Mark Byron

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Mark Byron: Affiliation:
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As the impact of the internet has rippled in ever larger circles over the past twenty-seven years, Pound’s presence on the web has slowly made itself felt: as web aggregators starting anthologizing poetry, selections from his work, particularly the shorter poems, were showcased on websites like Poetry Foundation, Bartleby.com or Poetry Archive. Universities, in their turn, began hosting modernist literature projects, such as PennSound in Philadelphia, where parts of Pound’s work are presented and commented on next to that of other modernist writers. Online libraries or book clubs hold scanned versions of the New Directions edition of The Cantos in closed access. Commentators publish their own work with extensive quotations in blogs or digital magazines, and artists upload artwork inspired by Pound and his poem. Wikipedia now boasts a long article on Pound himself, one on The Cantos and one on a ‘List of Cultural References in The Cantos’.

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digital culture hypertext annotation gloss digital edition online platform digital humanities Text Encoding Initiative Cantos Project multimedia

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Information: The New Ezra Pound Studies , pp. 257 - 270

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614719.017 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2019

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