What role did Chinese art play in the poetic development of Ezra
Pound, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens? How could they share
Chinese artists' Dao, an aesthetic held to be beyond verbal
representation? In this sequel to his critically acclaimed study
Orientalism and Modernism, Zhaoming Qian investigates the ways in
which these three modernist poets received Chinese artistic notions
and assimilated them into their literary masterpieces. With forty
rare and previously unpublished photographs presented with
accompanying analysis, this study reconstructs the three poets'
dialogue with the Chinese masters.
In addition to examining Canto 49, "Nine Nectarines," and "Six
Significant Landscapes," by Pound, Moore, and Stevens,
respectively, Qian provides indispensable historical and cultural
material never before recorded in a single work. The Modernist
Response to Chinese Art pays long-overdue attention to the role of
several early collections of Chinese art in England and America; it
clarifies some common misconceptions about Confucianism and Daoism;
it identifies in the modernist poets both linkage to and revolt
against their predecessors'--and peers'--hegemonic Orientalism; and
it intensifies awareness of modernist Orientalism not as a
monolithic and constant conception but as a slippery and shifting
process.
Zhaoming Qian, Professor of English at the University of New
Orleans, is the author of Orientalism and Modernism: The Legacy of
China in Pound and Williams and the editor of Ezra Pound and
China.
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