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Ezra Pound and 20thCentury Theories of Language: Faith with the Word (Routledge Studies in TwentiethCentury Literature),Used
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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 modernisms relationship with language. This volume explores the development of Pounds understanding of language in the context of twentiethcentury 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 It draws on largely unpublished archival material in order to provide a broadly chronological account of the development of Pounds views and their relation to both his own poetry and to modernist writing as a whole. Beginning with Pounds contentious relationship with philology and his antagonism towards academia, the book traces continuities and shifts across Pounds career, culminating in a discussion of the centrality of language to the conception of his Cantos. While it contains discussions around significant figures in twentiethcentury linguistic thought, such as Ferdinand de Saussure and Ludwig Wittgenstein, the book attempts to recover the work of theorists such as Leonard Bloomfield, Lucien LvyBruhl, 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 modernisms relationship to each.
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