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Approaches to teaching Pound's poetry and prose /

"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 li...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tryphonopoulos, Demetres P., 1956- (Editor), Nadel, Ira Bruce (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2021.
Series:Approaches to teaching world literature.
Subjects:
Pound, Ezra, > 1885-1972 > Study and teaching (Higher)
Pound, Ezra, > 1885-1972.
Authors, American > 20th century > Study and teaching (Higher)
American literature > 20th century > Study and teaching (Higher)
American literature > Study and teaching (Higher)
Education, Higher.
1900-1999
Table of 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.