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“Voi Altri Pochi”

Ezra Pound and his Audience, 1908–1925

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Mark Kyburz

    1. English Department, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-6
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  2. The Faulted Authority of Textualism

    • Mark Kyburz
    Pages 7-31

  3. Ezra Pound and the Problem of Audience

    • Mark Kyburz
    Pages 32-62

  4. The Relevance of Imagism (1911–1913)

    • Mark Kyburz
    Pages 63-93

  5. Exploding Relevance: From Image to Ideogram

    • Mark Kyburz
    Pages 94-107

  6. The Genesis of A Draft of XVI Cantos (1914–1925)

    • Mark Kyburz
    Pages 108-137

  7. The Double Price of High Modernism (1925)

    • Mark Kyburz
    Pages 138-158

  8. Conclusion

    • Mark Kyburz
    Pages 159-162

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 163-182
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Critical tradition has established a certain way of reading Ezra Pound, one that places the meanings of the words on the page at the centre of interest and neglects poetic communication. The present study contributes to the recent challenge to this critical orthodoxy, which has led to his canonization as a "difficult" poet, by investigating the pragmatic dimension of Pound's work. In its effort to reconstruct the dynamic communicative interface between Pound and his audiences in the early period of his career (1908-1925), this study draws on relevance theory, a recent sharpening in pragmatic theory, not so much to produce a "new" reading of his poetry, but to suggest how Pound became difficult: it is argued that the relative success and failure of his poetry to enhance cognitive and civic renewal depended on the dialectic between his presumptions of audience and the interpretive expectations and skills of his actual historical readers.

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  • English Department, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Mark Kyburz

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