The New Ezra Pound Studies

Description

This book develops key advances in Pound studies, responding to newly available primary sources and recent methodological developments in associated fields. It is divided into three parts. Part I addresses the state of Pound's texts, both those upon which he relied for source material and those he produced in manuscript and print. Part II provides a comprehensive overview of the relation between Pound's poetry and translations and scholarship in East Asian studies. Part III examines the radical reconception of Pound's cultural and political activities throughout his career, and his continuing impact, a re-assessment made possible by recent controversial scholarship as well as new directions in literary and cultural theory. Pound's wide-ranging intellectual, cultural, and aesthetic interests are given new analytic treatment, with an emphasis on how recent developments in gender and sexuality studies, medieval historiography, textual genetics, sound studies, visual cultures, and other fields can develop an understanding of Pound's poetry and prose.

Mark Byron is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Sydney and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. His research interests in modern literature include China and Japan, digital textuality, and literature and history. His current project, Modernism and the Early Middle Ages, has produced to date the monograph Ezra Pound's Eriugena (2014), winner of the Ezra Pound Society Book Prize in 2014, and a co-edited dossier on Samuel Beckett and the Middle Ages in the Journal of Beckett Studies (2016). He is the President of the Ezra Pound Society.

'The essay is informative and will be useful to readers interested in modernist publishing culture and book history. It also contains a substantial amount of unpublished material from Pound's archives, much of which is intelligently analyzed.' Robert Harris, Journal of Modern Literature