1st Edition
Ezra Pound and 20th-Century Theories of Language Faith with the Word
Introduction: ‘The Word Beyond Formulated Language’
Chapter 1. ‘End Fact. Try Fiction’: Post-Philology in Pound’s Early Writing
Chapter 2 Re-assessing The Chinese Written Character: Language, Consciousness, and Phenomena
Chapter 3 ‘Words So Full of Detail’: Paideuma and Linguistic Relativity
Chapter 4 Definition and Debabelization: Utopian Language in the Work of Ezra Pound and C.K. Ogden
Chapter 5 ‘In Nature are Signatures’: The Problem of Universals in Modernist Poetry
Afterword: Pound’s Linguistic Legacy
Biography
James Dowthwaite was born and raised in Winchester and studied, first, at Royal Holloway, University of London, before completing his doctorate at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford in July 2016. He now teachings English and American literature at the University of Jena, having previously taught at the University of Göttingen. He lives in Heidelberg with his wife.
