Andrew Houwen

Ezra Pound's Japan (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first book to deal with the subject of Ezra Pound's relationships with Japanese literature as a whole, this book provides a wealth of new scholarship on this subject, including on the 19th-century Japanese contexts that led to Pound's interest in 'hokku' and Fenollosa's No translations on which Pound based his own; significant original research on Pound's Japanese friendships that enriched his understanding of Japanese literature; and an examination of all the explicit references to No in The Cantos in unprecedented depth. It demonstrates that the works for which Ezra Pound is most famous, such as 'In a Station of the Metro' and his epic poem, The Cantos, were shaped by his lifelong interest in Japanese literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350174320
• Artikelnr.: 60764009

Autorenporträt

Andrew Houwen is Associate Professor at Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on the Text
Introduction
1 Ezra Pound's Japan
Part 1: Pound and Hokku
2 Herbert Spencer's 'Minor Image', Masaoka Shiki, and the Meiji Reinvention
of Haiku
3 Symphonies in White: Basil Hall Chamberlain and the Introduction of '
Hokku' into English
4 Pound's '"Metro" Hokku'
Part 2: Pound and No
5 'Nobody Thought No Would Rise Again': Umewaka Minoru and the Meiji
Revival of No
6 Ernest Fenollosa's 'Single Image' and the Introduction of No into English
7 'One of the Great Arts of the World': Pound's First No Translations
8 'Growing Together': Pound's Japanese Friends, No, and the Genesis of The
Cantos
9 'The Closest Parallel to My Thought': Pound's No Plays and
Accomplishments
Part 3: No and The Cantos
10 'Grow with the Pines of Ise': Pound's Early Cantos and No
11 'A Treasure Like Nothing We Have in the Occident': Pound's Wartime
Cantos and No
12 'The Light Sings Eternal': No's Place in the Paradiso of Pound's Later
Cantos
Bibliography
Index of (Published) Works by Pound
Index of Names