Author: Feng Lan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442613114
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In Ezra Pound and Confucianism, Feng Lan offers the first study of Ezra Pound's project of establishing a Confucian humanism as an alternative to Western modernism. While Pound scholars are familiar with the American poet's commitment to Confucianism, the question of how Confucianism systematically shaped Pound's thoughts has not been convincingly answered. Lan shows that when confronted with what appeared to him a dehumanising modern world, Pound discovered in Confucianism possible solutions to issues that he encountered in language, politics, and religion, which Western intellectual tradition as a whole had failed to provide. By integrating Confucian doctrines with received ideas from Western tradition, Pound developed a humanist discourse and brought it to bear on the historical conditions of his time. The result was a discourse characterized primarily by the following beliefs: the human mind as the source of creation, the individual's moral will as the basis of truth and social order, the human partnership with the world of nature, the self-perfectibility of human beings, and their innate capability for internal transcendence in spiritual life. Lan examines the strategies with which Pound reconstructed Confucianism into a systematic modern discourse, focusing on his controversial translation of Confucian scriptures, his rethinking of the nature of language and poetry, his political theory of the individual and the state, and his formulation of an unorthodox spirituality. Situating Pound's works in diverse cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts, Ezra Pound and Confucianism demonstrates that, despite its frequent divergence from the Confucian canon, Pound's Confucian humanism gives his poetry an ideological coherence, enriches the Western humanist tradition, and asserts its relevance to the historical and cross-cultural development of Confucianism in modern times.
Ezra Pound and Confucianism
Author: Feng Lan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442613114
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In Ezra Pound and Confucianism, Feng Lan offers the first study of Ezra Pound's project of establishing a Confucian humanism as an alternative to Western modernism. While Pound scholars are familiar with the American poet's commitment to Confucianism, the question of how Confucianism systematically shaped Pound's thoughts has not been convincingly answered. Lan shows that when confronted with what appeared to him a dehumanising modern world, Pound discovered in Confucianism possible solutions to issues that he encountered in language, politics, and religion, which Western intellectual tradition as a whole had failed to provide. By integrating Confucian doctrines with received ideas from Western tradition, Pound developed a humanist discourse and brought it to bear on the historical conditions of his time. The result was a discourse characterized primarily by the following beliefs: the human mind as the source of creation, the individual's moral will as the basis of truth and social order, the human partnership with the world of nature, the self-perfectibility of human beings, and their innate capability for internal transcendence in spiritual life. Lan examines the strategies with which Pound reconstructed Confucianism into a systematic modern discourse, focusing on his controversial translation of Confucian scriptures, his rethinking of the nature of language and poetry, his political theory of the individual and the state, and his formulation of an unorthodox spirituality. Situating Pound's works in diverse cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts, Ezra Pound and Confucianism demonstrates that, despite its frequent divergence from the Confucian canon, Pound's Confucian humanism gives his poetry an ideological coherence, enriches the Western humanist tradition, and asserts its relevance to the historical and cross-cultural development of Confucianism in modern times.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442613114
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In Ezra Pound and Confucianism, Feng Lan offers the first study of Ezra Pound's project of establishing a Confucian humanism as an alternative to Western modernism. While Pound scholars are familiar with the American poet's commitment to Confucianism, the question of how Confucianism systematically shaped Pound's thoughts has not been convincingly answered. Lan shows that when confronted with what appeared to him a dehumanising modern world, Pound discovered in Confucianism possible solutions to issues that he encountered in language, politics, and religion, which Western intellectual tradition as a whole had failed to provide. By integrating Confucian doctrines with received ideas from Western tradition, Pound developed a humanist discourse and brought it to bear on the historical conditions of his time. The result was a discourse characterized primarily by the following beliefs: the human mind as the source of creation, the individual's moral will as the basis of truth and social order, the human partnership with the world of nature, the self-perfectibility of human beings, and their innate capability for internal transcendence in spiritual life. Lan examines the strategies with which Pound reconstructed Confucianism into a systematic modern discourse, focusing on his controversial translation of Confucian scriptures, his rethinking of the nature of language and poetry, his political theory of the individual and the state, and his formulation of an unorthodox spirituality. Situating Pound's works in diverse cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts, Ezra Pound and Confucianism demonstrates that, despite its frequent divergence from the Confucian canon, Pound's Confucian humanism gives his poetry an ideological coherence, enriches the Western humanist tradition, and asserts its relevance to the historical and cross-cultural development of Confucianism in modern times.
Ezra Pound's Confucian Translations
Author: Mary Paterson Cheadle
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472107544
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Provides bold insights into Pound's Fascism.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472107544
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Provides bold insights into Pound's Fascism.
Ezra Pound and China
Author: Zhaoming Qian
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472068296
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
DIVExplores Ezra Pound's long fascination with Chinese literature and culture /div
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472068296
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
DIVExplores Ezra Pound's long fascination with Chinese literature and culture /div
The New Ezra Pound Studies
Author: Mark Byron
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499015
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Essays on recent developments in Pound scholarship and research, including newly available primary sources and methodological advances in cognate fields.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499015
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Essays on recent developments in Pound scholarship and research, including newly available primary sources and methodological advances in cognate fields.
Confucian Analects
Author: Confucius
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confucianism
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confucianism
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Modernist Response to Chinese Art
Author: Zhaoming Qian
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813921761
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Modernist Response to Chinese Art is a work of both erudition and sympathy that reveals the root of modernist poets' otherwise baffling interest in and use of Chinese art. Most impressive, perhaps, is the depth of their embrace of it, as Qian has so convincingly documented. --Patricia C. Williams.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813921761
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Modernist Response to Chinese Art is a work of both erudition and sympathy that reveals the root of modernist poets' otherwise baffling interest in and use of Chinese art. Most impressive, perhaps, is the depth of their embrace of it, as Qian has so convincingly documented. --Patricia C. Williams.
The Sun on the Silk
Author: William Shu-sam Tay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confucianism
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confucianism
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Cathay
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Cathay is a compilation of traditional Chinese poems translated into English by poet Ezra Pound. These fifteen poems are seen less as strict translations and more as new pieces in their own right.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Cathay is a compilation of traditional Chinese poems translated into English by poet Ezra Pound. These fifteen poems are seen less as strict translations and more as new pieces in their own right.
Orientalism and Modernism
Author: Zhaoming Qian
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822316695
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Chinese culture held a well-known fascination for modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. What is less known but is made fully clear by Zhaoming Qian is the degree to which oriental culture made these poets the modernists they became. This ambitious and illuminating study shows that Orientalism, no less than French symbolism and Italian culture, is a constitutive element of Modernism. Consulting rare and unpublished materials, Qian traces Pound's and Williams's remarkable dialogues with the great Chinese poets--Qu Yuan, Li Bo, Wang Wei, and Bo Juyi--between 1913 and 1923. His investigation reveals that these exchanges contributed more than topical and thematic ideas to the Americans' work and suggests that their progressively modernist style is directly linked to a steadily growing contact and affinity for similar Chinese styles. He demonstrates, for example, how such influences as the ethics of pictorial representation, the style of ellipsis, allusion, and juxtaposition, and the Taoist/Zen-Buddhist notion of nonbeing/being made their way into Pound's pre-Fenollosan Chinese adaptations, Cathay, Lustra, and the Early Cantos, as well as Williams's Sour Grapes and Spring and All. Developing a new interpretation of important work by Pound and Williams, Orientalism and Modernism fills a significant gap in accounts of American Modernism, which can be seen here for the first time in its truly multicultural character.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822316695
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Chinese culture held a well-known fascination for modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. What is less known but is made fully clear by Zhaoming Qian is the degree to which oriental culture made these poets the modernists they became. This ambitious and illuminating study shows that Orientalism, no less than French symbolism and Italian culture, is a constitutive element of Modernism. Consulting rare and unpublished materials, Qian traces Pound's and Williams's remarkable dialogues with the great Chinese poets--Qu Yuan, Li Bo, Wang Wei, and Bo Juyi--between 1913 and 1923. His investigation reveals that these exchanges contributed more than topical and thematic ideas to the Americans' work and suggests that their progressively modernist style is directly linked to a steadily growing contact and affinity for similar Chinese styles. He demonstrates, for example, how such influences as the ethics of pictorial representation, the style of ellipsis, allusion, and juxtaposition, and the Taoist/Zen-Buddhist notion of nonbeing/being made their way into Pound's pre-Fenollosan Chinese adaptations, Cathay, Lustra, and the Early Cantos, as well as Williams's Sour Grapes and Spring and All. Developing a new interpretation of important work by Pound and Williams, Orientalism and Modernism fills a significant gap in accounts of American Modernism, which can be seen here for the first time in its truly multicultural character.
Confucian Analects
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258018566
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258018566
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description