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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

Ernest Fenollosa
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This much-disputed essay edited by Ezra Pound from the manuscript of Ernest Fenollosa has since gone through several editions, despite the ridicule of such sinologists as Prof. George Kennedy of Yale, who called it “a small mass of confusion".
The old theory as to the nature of the Chinese written character is that the written character is ideogrammic—a stylized picture of the thing or concept it represents. The opposing theory is that the character may have had pictorial origins in prehistoric times but that these origins have been obscured in all but a few very simple cases, & that in any case native writers don’t have the original pictorial meaning in mind as they write.
Whether Pound proceeded on false premises remains an academic question. Let the pedants rave. An important extension of imagist technique in poetry was gained by Pound’s perception of the essentially poetic nature of the Chinese character as it's still written.
Language
English
Pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publisher
City Lights Books (San Francisco)
Release
January 01, 2001
ISBN
0872860140
ISBN 13
9780872860148

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

Ernest Fenollosa
4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This much-disputed essay edited by Ezra Pound from the manuscript of Ernest Fenollosa has since gone through several editions, despite the ridicule of such sinologists as Prof. George Kennedy of Yale, who called it “a small mass of confusion".
The old theory as to the nature of the Chinese written character is that the written character is ideogrammic—a stylized picture of the thing or concept it represents. The opposing theory is that the character may have had pictorial origins in prehistoric times but that these origins have been obscured in all but a few very simple cases, & that in any case native writers don’t have the original pictorial meaning in mind as they write.
Whether Pound proceeded on false premises remains an academic question. Let the pedants rave. An important extension of imagist technique in poetry was gained by Pound’s perception of the essentially poetic nature of the Chinese character as it's still written.
Language
English
Pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publisher
City Lights Books (San Francisco)
Release
January 01, 2001
ISBN
0872860140
ISBN 13
9780872860148

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