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Award for the Best Collection of Essays on Culture in English Language in its 2024 by by AEDEAN (The Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies) This collection offers for the first time criticism, biographical essays, analysis, translation studies, and reminiscences of Ezra Pound’s extensive interaction with Spain and Spanish culture, from his earliest visits to Spain in 1902 and 1906 and his study of significant Spanish writers to the dedication of the first monument erected anywhere to Pound in the small Spanish village of Medinaceli in 1973. Divided into two sections, Part One: “ON EZRA POUND AND THE SPANISH WORLD” includes a general introduction on Pound’s lifelong involvement with Spain, together with chapters on Pound’s study of classical Spanish literature, the Spanish dimension in The Cantos, Pound’s contemporary Spanish connections, and his legacy in contemporary Spanish letters. Part Two: “EZRA POUND AND THE SPANISH WORLD: A READER,” then gathers for the first time Pound’s own writings (postcards, letters, and essays) concerning Spain and Spanish writers, as well as his correspondence with Spanish poets Miguel de Unamuno and Juan Ramón Jiménez and with José Vázquez Amaral, the first Spanish translator of The Cantos in its entirety. The volume includes reminiscences by Spanish Novísimos poets, Antonio Colinas and Jaime Siles, written explicitly for this collection. Besides providing a thorough exploration into Pound’s engagement with Spain, this volume pays homage to Pound’s considerable influence on Spanish culture.

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Author:   Viorica Patea ,  John Gery ,  Walter Baumann
Publisher:   Clemson University Digital Press
Imprint:   Clemson University Digital Press
Volume:   9
ISBN:  

9781638040620

ISBN 10:   1638040621
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   26 April 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface PART ONE: EZRA POUND AND THE SPANISH WORLD: ESSAYS I. Introduction 1. “A Dream Spain”: The Legacy of Spain in Pound’s Oeuvre Viorica Patea II. Spanish Beginnings from Averroes to the Baroque Pound’s Ibn Rushd (Averroes): The Arabic Contribution to an Alternate History Maria Luisa Ardizzone “The Pale Dawn of Spain”: Pound’s Morphology of Dawn Giuliana Ferreccio The Vitality and Precision of the Poetic Word Onstage: Ezra Pound’s Reflections on Lope de Vega Natalia Carbajosa Pound Lopista vs E.P.: Dissociation from the Spanish Baroque Paula Barba Guerrero III. Spain and/in The Cantos Re-Reading Pound and Camões Stephen Wilson Menippean Satire and Carnivalism in Ezra Pound’s Pisan Canto 74 J. Rhett Forman The Congruence of Lope de Vega’s Plays and Noh in The Pisan Cantos Yoshiko Kita Washington Irving’s Alhambra in The Cantos Caterina Ricciardi Pound’s Prado and the “Glimpse of Velázquez” John Gery IV. Pound’s Modernist Iberian Connections Pound and Unamuno: The History of a Collaboration Miriam Borham-Puyal Juan Ramón and the Imagists: A Reappraisal of Modernism(o) Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan Lines of Division: Nancy Cunard, Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and the Spanish Civil War Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec Discovering the Mediterranean Sanity: Pound and Hemingway Massimo Bacigalupo V. Echoes of Pound in the Postmodern Spanish World Pound’s Amulet in Roberto Bolaño’s Novels Emanuele Zoppellari Perale Science and Silence: Reading Antonio Colinas in the Light of Pound’s Theory of the Image Melania Stancu The Cantos in Translation: The Spanish Variations Leonor María Martínez Serrano Pound and the Novísimo Poets: Three Memoirs A. Brief Chronicle of an Encounter Antonio Colinas B. Pound’s Classics as a Model for the Novísimos Jaime Siles C. Ezra Pound, The Homer of the 21st Century Luis Alberto de Cuenca PART TWO: POUND AND THE SPANISH WORLD: A READER Letter from Pound to Viola Baxter, May 9, 1906 Pound’s Postcards to Viola Baxter from Madrid, May 27, 1906 Pound Correspondence with the Librarians of the Biblioteca Palacio Real, Madrid, May 28-June 7, 1906 Ezra Pound, “Burgos: A Dream City of Old Castile” (1906) Ezra Pound, “Some Notes on Francisco de Quevedo Villegas” (1921) Ezra Pound, Letter to José Vázquez Amaral (facsimile), October 23, 1954 José Vázquez Amaral’s Articles on Pound and The Cantos (1968-1975) Letters of Ezra and Dorothy Pound to Juan Ramón Jiménez and Zenobia Camprubí (1948-1956)

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‘This is an insightful, meticulous and wide-ranging study which comprises original criticism on the boundless figure of Pound – the specificity, conciseness and precision of each essay is clearly an asset. Highly illustrative and clearly informative, this collective volume will appeal to anyone interested in Pound and the Spanish tradition, and not only to specialists in the field.’ Carles Granel Sales, EPOS

Author Information

Viorica Patea is Professor of American Literature at the University of Salamanca, where she teaches American and English literature. Her published books include Entre el mito y la realidad: Aproximación a la obra poética de Sylvia Plath (1989), a study on Whitman, La apología de Whitman a favor de la épica de la modernidad (1999) and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (2005), forthcoming in a second edition with a new translation, extended notes, and a new introduction. She has edited various collections of essays such as Critical Essays on the Myth of the American Adam (2001) and, together with Paul Scott Derrick, Modernism Revisited: Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in American Poetry (2007). Her edited collection of essays, Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective (2012) received the Javier Coy Research Award for the best edited book (2013). In addition, Patea is an accomplished translator: from Romanian into English (with Paul Derrick), several editions of the poetry of Romanian poet Ana Blandiana, My Native Land A4 (2014) and Five Books (2021); from Romanian into Spanish, the poetry of Blandiana as well as the poetry of Patrizia de Rachewiltz; and from Romanian into Spanish, an annotated edition of El diario de la felicidad by Nicolae Steinhardt (2007). John Gery is an American poet, critic, collaborative translator, and editor. He has published seven books of poetry, a critical work on the treatment of nuclear annihilation in American poetry, two co-edited volumes of literary criticism and two co-edited anthologies of contemporary poetry, as well as, a co-authored biography and guidebook on Ezra Pound's Venice. Walter Baumann was born in Switzerland and studied at the Universities of Zurich and Aberdeen. His academic teaching career in German Studies started at Toronto University and continued at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. He published on J. W. Goethe, H. Broch, and M. Frisch.

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