Ezra Pound and 20th Century Theories of Language Faith with the Word 1st Edition by James Dowthwaite ISBN 0367262746 9780367262747

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ISBN 10: 0367262746

ISBN 13: 9780367262747 

Author: James Dowthwaite 

Ezra Pound is one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, a writer whose poetry is particularly notable for the intensity of its linguistic qualities. Indeed, from the principles of Imagism to the polyphony of his Cantos, Pound is central to our conception of modernism’s relationship with language. This volume explores the development of Pound’s understanding of language in the context of twentieth-century linguistics and the philosophy of language. It draws on largely unpublished archival material in order to provide a broadly chronological account of the development of Pound’s views and their relation to both his own poetry and to modernist writing as a whole. Beginning with Pound’s contentious relationship with philology and his antagonism towards academia, the book traces continuities and shifts across Pound’s career, culminating in a discussion of the centrality of language to the conception of his　Cantos. While it contains discussions around significant figures in twentieth-century linguistic thought, such as 　Ferdinand de Saussure and Ludwig Wittgenstein, the book attempts to recover the work of theorists such as Leonard Bloomfield, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, and C.K. Ogden, figures who were once central to modernism, but who have largely been pushed to the periphery of modernist studies. The picture of Pound that emerges is a figure whose understanding of language is not only bound up with modernist approaches to anthropology, politics, and philosophy, but which calls for a new understanding of modernism’s relationship to each.

Table of contents:

Introduction: ‘The Word Beyond Formulated Language’

Chapter 1. ‘End Fact. Try Fiction’: Post-Philology in Pound’s Early Writing

Chapter 2 Re-assessing The Chinese Written Character: Language, Consciousness, and Phenomena

Chapter 3 ‘Words So Full of Detail’: Paideuma and Linguistic Relativity

Chapter 4 Definition and Debabelization: Utopian Language in the Work of Ezra Pound and C.K. Ogden

Chapter 5 ‘In Nature are Signatures’: The Problem of Universals in Modernist Poetry

Afterword: Pound’s Linguistic Legacy

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