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Ezra Pound and 20th-Century Theories of Language - Faith with the Word (Paperback)
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Ezra Pound and 20th-Century Theories of Language - Faith with the Word (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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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 It draws on largely unpublished archival material in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
Levy-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.
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