Ezra Pound: The One-Principle Text
Confucianism, Pound writes, “is one, indivisible, a nature extending to every detail as the nature of being oak or maple extends to every part of the oak tree or maple.” Pound considers Confucianism a universal principle of truth manifest both in nature and in culture. He also follows Confucianism a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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Literature and theology
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 4, Pages: 394-410 |
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| Summary: | Confucianism, Pound writes, “is one, indivisible, a nature extending to every detail as the nature of being oak or maple extends to every part of the oak tree or maple.” Pound considers Confucianism a universal principle of truth manifest both in nature and in culture. He also follows Confucianism as a literary method in making his art, which he calls the one-principle text. This article examines how Pound applies his Confucianism as a unifying method in The Cantos, and how his one-principle text, together with his ideogrammic method, embodies his innovation of translating his reading of Confucian philosophy into Confucian poetics. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frl037 |