Ezra Pound and 20th-Century Theories of Language - 9781032092270

Name: Ezra Pound and 20th-Century Theories of Language - 9781032092270
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

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\u2019s relationship with language. This volume explores the development of Pound\u2019s 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 It draws on largely unpublished archival material in order to provide a broadly chronological account of the development of Pound\u2019s views and their relation to both his own poetry and to modernist writing as a whole. Beginning with Pound\u2019s contentious relationship with philology and his antagonism towards academia, the book traces continuities and shifts across Pound\u2019s career, culminating in a discussion of the centrality of language to the conception of his Cantos. While it contains discussions ar.