Ezra Pound and 20th-Century Theories of Language: Faith with the Word

ISBN-13: 9781032092270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 236 str.

James Dowthwaite

Opis

Ezra Pound is one of the most significant poets of the 20th century; a writer whose poetry is particularly notable for the intensity of its linguistic qualities. This volume explores the development of Pound’s understanding of language in the context of linguistics and the philosophy of language.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

James Dowthwaite was born and raised in Winchester and studied, first, at Royal Holloway, University of London, before completing his doctorate at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford in July 2016. He now teachings English and American literature at the University of Jena, having previously taught at the University of Göttingen. He lives in Heidelberg with his wife.