Approaches to teaching Pound's poetry and prose / edited by Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Ira B. Nadel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tryphonopoulos, Demetres P., 1956- editor.

Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor.

Series:

Approaches to teaching world literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Study and teaching (Higher).

Pound, Ezra.

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Authors, American--20th century--Study and teaching (Higher).

Authors, American.

American literature--20th century--Study and teaching (Higher).

American literature.

American literature--Study and teaching (Higher).

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

xiii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2021.

Summary:

"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching works by Ezra Pound, including his prosody, his references to classical and Asian traditions, and his role in modernism, as well as his fascism, anti-Semitism, and other problematic beliefs. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate literature courses, including many online resources"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Editions

Other primary sources

Modern critical reception

Biographical backgrounds

Reference materials

Multimedia resources

Pound and pedagogy

Teaching celebrity Pound / Ira B. Nadel

"Free from emotional slither" : gender, sexuality, and Pound's ejaculations / Jennifer Moxley

Pound among the women / Susan McCabe

Anti-semitism, racism, and conspiracy theories in Pound's Rome radio speeches / Trevor Sawler

"Out of key with his time" : Pound as poet in exile / John Gery

Pound and difficulty / Leonard Diepeveen and J. Matthew Huculak

Pound's prosody for the classroom / Stephen J. Adams

Patience for the "ancients" : studying classical allusions in Pound's prosodic practice / Sara Dunton

Pound and the early-twentieth-century visual revolution / Rebecca Beasley

Vorticism, the palimpsest, the ideogram, and Pound's understanding of Chinese historiography in The cantos / Jennifer Ryan-Bryant

Pound's China : teaching "The river-merchant's wife : a letter" and Canto 49 / Zhaoming Qian

Pound's economics and politics / Alec Marsh

The cantos in a quarter / Brian M. Reed

Using electronic resources and information technologies to teach Pound's guide to Kulchur and Canto 45 / Anderson D. Araujo

Usury, poetry, and art : Canto 45 / Peter Nicholls

Pound as Noh student : the lessons of Hagoromo / Carrie J. Preston

Pound and periodicals : editing modernism / Craig Monk

"Poundian ambition on the semester system" : Pound, the avant-garde, and the academy / Alan Golding.

Notes:

Series information from publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Approaches to teaching Pound's poetry and prose

ISBN:

9781603294706

1603294708

9781603294492

160329449X

OCLC:

1193590621