Ezra Pound and Confucianism : Remaking Humanism in the Face of Modernity.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Romanization -- Introduction: Keeping Confucian 'Blossoms' from Falling -- 1 Five Types of 'Misreading' in Pound's Confucian Translations -- 1. The Embarrassment of an Amateur Sinologist -- 2. The Legacy of Previous Translations -- 3. Overcoming the Anxiety of Influence -- 4. The Temptations of Etymographic Interpretation -- 5. Imposing Ideological Consistency -- 2 Confucianism and Pound's Rethinking of Language -- 1. Zheng Ming: The Politics of Naming -- 2. Poetic Precision: A Modernist Paradigm -- 3. Poets as the Guardian of Language -- 4. Cheng: The Epistemological Basis of Language -- 5. The Political Economy of Verbal Precision -- 3 Confucianism and Pound's Political Polemic -- 1. Supporting the Self or Subduing the Self? -- 2. The 'Divine Rights' of the Individual -- 3. Social Responsibility and the Elite Individual -- 4. The Heroic Self in Adversity -- 4 Confucianism and Pound's Spiritual Beliefs -- 1. The 'Rebellious Protestant' -- 2. The 'Four Beginnings' of Human Nature -- 3. 'Man and Earth: Two Halves of the Tally' -- 4. Dao: The Tensile Light from Heaven -- Conclusion: Poundian-Confucian Humanism at the Crossroads -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

In Ezra Pound and Confucianism, Feng Lan offers the first study of Ezra Pound's project of establishing a Confucian humanism as an alternative to Western modernism.

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