Jonathan Stalling: 2 books
Poetics of Emptiness
Transformations of Asian Thought in American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
The Poetics of Emptiness uncovers an important untold history by tracing the historically specific, intertextual pathways of a single, if polyvalent, philosophical term, emptiness, as it is transformed within twentieth-century American poetry and poetics.
This conceptual migration is detailed in two...
The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
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...