Out of the "Western box"
Subtitle: towards a multicultural poetics in the poetry of Ezra Pound and Charles Olson
By: Joon-Hwan Kim.
Series: Studies in modern poetry ;; v. 9
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation; Olson, Charles, 1910-1970 -- Criticism and interpretation; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature; American poetry -- Foreign influences; East and West in literature; Poetics -- History -- 20th century
Description: "This book focuses on two twentieth-century American epic poets - Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and Charles Olson (1910-1970) - in the context of multiculturalism. Pound deployed the cultural resources of the Other to deflect Western imperialism's absolutizing of the self and opened new poetic and cultural spaces beyond T. S. Eliot's closed Anglo-American tradition. However, he fell short of discarding modernist Enlightenment epistemology reifying the Other.

Olson followed in the tradition of Pound's poetics, but rejected his Eurocentrism. By deconstructing Pound's epistemology, Olson forged a post-modern and postimperial multicultural perspective that reconfigured Otherness through an unmediated, self-decentered discourse."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-254) and index.