No.19 November, 2000



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FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN
No. 1
Essays: Collage <To Article>
Series : Ezra Pound in History
Prologue: The day of debacle
Books : The Fontana Postmodernism Reader
Editor's Note

FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No. 2
Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 2nd installment )
Part 1 Fin de Siecle
Chapter 1 The Frontier and the Gilded Age
(the place and the age Pound was born to;
Twain and Whitman vs James and Arnold etc)
Essay: The Chinese written character and the ideogrammic method <To Article>

FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No. 3
Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 3rd installment )
Part 1 Fin de Siecle
Chapter 2 The Avant-gardes of London
(London of Ruskin, Morris, the Pre-Raphaelite painters, Pater, Wilde and Yeats ;
aestheticism as a new form of revolt ;
artistic aestheticism and political aestheticism ;
the end of decadence)
Books : The Cambridge companion to Ezra Pound

FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No. 4
Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 4th installment )
Part 1 Fin de Siecle
Chapter 3 The Japonisme
(The Japonisme in fin de siecle Paris and London ;
Whistler and Pound ;
Ernest Fenollosa, Edward Sylvester Morse, William Bigellow, John La Farge, Henry Adams in Japan ;
Fenollosa's notebooks)
Art : Tami Koume's Paintings
Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura <To Article>

FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No. 5
Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 5th installment )
Part 2 Modern Age
Chapter 4 The twentieth century of America
(The birth of American realism ; Pound in student years ;
his meeting with Smith, Williams, H. D. and Heyman)
Essay : Modernism and theosophy<To Article>

FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No. 6
Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 6th installment )
Part 2 Modern Age
Chapter 5 The night before London's modernism
(London's literary atmosphere at the beginning of the new century ;
Pound's getting aquaintance with Shakespear family and Yeats ;
Ford Madox Ford's discovery of the three geniuses;
Joyce leaving from Dublin)
Art : l'atelier Brancusi
The saint's home where Pound visited <To Article>

FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.7
Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 7th installment )
Part 2 Modern Age
Chapter 6 Imagism ( Section 1 - 3, 1st half)
( The remains of aestheticism and the birth of modern art;
Pound becomes a contributor of The New Age;
Pound's ontological reflection on poet and poetry, "I gather the Limbs of Osiris":
Theosophists in London)
Essay : The clothing habit of Ezra Pound <To Article>

FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.8
Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 8th installment )
Part 2 Modern Age
Chapter 6 Imagism ( Section 4- 6, 2nd half)
(The start of the Poetry magazine and Pound's participation with it as a foreign correspondent ;
"In a station of the Metro", mixing of Imagisim and japonisme;
The difinition of Imagism by Pound and Flint in the Poetry magazine ;
discovery of Frost ; Pound and de Gourmont ;
meeting with Amy Lowell ;
Participation with The New Free Women as a literary editor ;
Publication of Des Imagistes in New York and London; )
Essay : Monologue interieu and/or Autobiography <To Article>

FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.9
Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 9th installment )
Part 2 Modern Age
Chapter 7 Vorticism( Section 1- 3, 1st half)
( Pound's meeting with Mary Fenollosa ;
Japonisme in English and American literature ;
Pound' interest in the Orient ;
Staying at the Stone Cottage ; Discovery of Joyce ;
assistance in publication of Dubliners ; marriage ;
Wyndham Lewis and the Omega Workshops ;
the Rebel Art Center of Lewis ;
New Sculpture ; meeting with Henri Gaudier-Brzeska )
Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art

FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.10
Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 10th installment )
Part 2 Modern Age
Chapter 7 Vorticism( Section 4- 5, 2nd half)
( Influence of Theosophy in the concept of Vorticism ;
Publication of BLAST ; The manifest of Vorticism ;
Futurism and Vorticism ; Amy Lowell's revisit to London ;
Publication of Some Imagist Poets)
Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art(2)

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