A companion to Ezra Pound's Guide to kulchur / Anderson Araujo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Araujo, Anderson, author.

Series:

Ezra Pound Center for Literature series

The Ezra Pound Center for Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Guide to kulchur.

Pound, Ezra.

Guide to kulchur (Pound, Ezra).

Physical Description:

xv, 480 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Clemson [South Carolina] : Clemson University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Guide to Kulchur is paramount among Ezra Pound's prose works. In its fifty-eight chapters and postscript, the book encapsulates his chief concerns: his cultural, historiographic, philosophical, and epistemological theories; his aesthetics and poetics; and his economic and political thought. Pound's guide showcases his subversive, irreverent alternative to mainstream culture-kulchur. Yet it also displays some of the same baffling complexities as his monumental poetic experiment, The Cantos. The prose twin to the poem, Guide to Kulchur is wildly encyclopedic and allusive. A Companion to Ezra Pound's Guide to Kulchur helps the reader make sense of this dizzying eclecticism. Striking a balance between rigorous scholarship and accessibility, it is designed for the specialist and non-specialist alike. With an extensive yet unobtrusive critical apparatus, the book provides cogent commentary on key points throughout Guide to Kulchur. It is organized as a page-by-page set of annotations mapped onto the New Directions edition of Pound's text, allowing both books to be read side by side. The volume also situates Pound's wide range of references in relation to other texts in his thought and body of work, especially The Cantos. Featuring biographic snapshot, dates, summaries, and translations as well as original material suppressed by T. S. Eliot for the first Faber & Faber edition of 1938, A Companion to Ezra Pound's Guide to Kulchur enables the reader to gain a comprehensive understanding of Pound's most far-reaching, interdisciplinary, and transhistorical polemic. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I

Section I

1 Digest of the Analects 30

2 The New Learning: Part One 41

3 Sparta 776 B.C. 60

4 Totalitarian 69

5 Zweck or the AIM 75

Section II

6 Vortex 92

7 Great Bass: Part One 103

8 Ici Je Teste 108

9 Tradition 113

Part II

Section III

10 Guide 122

11 Italy 127

12 Aeschylus and ... 128

13 Monumental 133

Section IV

14 The History of Philosophy Is ...? 138

Part III

Section V

15 Values 142

16 Europe or the Setting 146

17 Sophists 157

18 Kulchur: Part One 168

19 Kulchur: Part Two 173

20 March 12th 178

21 Textbooks 180

Section VI

22 Savoir Faire 184

23 The New Learning: Part Two 193

24 Examples of Civilization 202

25 Books "About" 205

26 On Answering Critics 210

Part IV

Section VII

27 Maxims of Prudence 214

28 Human Wishes 215

Section VIII

29 Guide to Kulchur 222

30 The Proof of the Pudding 225

31 Canti 229

32 The Novel and So Forth 232

33 Precedents 238

34 On Arriving and Not Arriving 240

35 Praise Song of the Buck-Hare 241

36 Time-Lag 242

37 The Culture of an Age 243

38 Education or Information 246

39 Neo-Platonicks Etc. 247

40 Losses 250

41 Odes: Risks 254

42 Great Bass: Part Two 255

43 Tone 257

Part V

Section X

44 Government 262

45 The Recurring Decimal 270

46 Decline of the Adamses 274

47 Royalty and All That 276

Section XI

48 Arabia Deserta 288

49 Kung 291

50 Chaucer Was Framed? 298

51 Happy Days 301

52 The Promised Land 306

Part VI

Section XII

53 Study of Physiognomy 312

54 And Therefore Tending 317

55 Pergamena Deest 352

56 Watch the Beaneries 354

Section XIII

57 Epilogue 358

58 To Recapitulate 359.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Araujo, Anderson. Companion to Ezra Pound's Guide to kulchur.

ISBN:

9781942954385

1942954387

OCLC:

1001807331