Out of the "Western Box" : Towards a Multicultural Poetics in the Poetry of Ezra Pound and Charles Olson
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Modern Poetry
ISBN-10
0820437689
ISBN-13
9780820437682
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 6th, 2003
Print length
261 Pages
Weight
506 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.60 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -
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This book focuses on two twentieth-century American epic poets – Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and Charles Olson (1910-1970) – in the context of multiculturalism. Pound deployed the cultural resources of the Other to deflect Western imperialism’s absolutizing of the self and opened new poetic and cultural spaces beyond T. S. Eliot’s closed Anglo-American tradition. However, he fell short of discarding modernist Enlightenment epistemology reifying the Other. Olson followed in the tradition of Pound’s open poetics but rejected his Eurocentrism. By deconstructing Pound’s epistemology, Olson forged a postmodernist and postimperial multicultural perspective that reconfigured Otherness through an unmediated, self-decentered discourse.
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