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Chinese Written Character As a Medium for Poetry : A Critical Edition

Paperback • 2008 • English

Chinese Written Character As a Medium for Poetry : A Critical Edition

By Ernest. Fenollosa

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<p>First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that continues to shape our poetic and stylistic preferences: the idea that poems consist primarily of images; the idea that the sentence form with active verb mirrors relations of natural force. But previous editions of the essay represent Pound's...Show more

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9780823228690

Publisher

Bronx : Fordham University Press

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Chinese Written Character As a Medium for Poetry : A Critical Edition

Format

Paperback

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