The Instigations of Ezra Pound by Ernest Fenollosa I: The Chinese Written Character, Atlantic Crossings, Texts Mislaid, and the Machinations of a Divinely-Inspired Char Woman

Ezra Pound’s understandings of Chinese thought and language, as is well known, played a decisive role both as subject and form in Pound’s mature work, including most importantly The Cantos. Central to Pound’s understanding of China and the Chinese language, as also is well known, is Ernest Fenollosa’s manuscript essay, ‘The Chinese Written Language as a Medium for Poetry’, which Mary Fenollosa sent to Pound in 1914 and which under Pound’s editorial hand was published as ‘The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry’, first in four monthly installments in Margaret Anderson’s Little Review in 1919. Pound believed the essay, as he wrote in brief introduction to the first LR installment, ‘a study of the fundamentals of all aesthetics’, but no central work of Anglophone modernism had a more difficult birth. This essay, part of a larger study of the literary and cultural history and reception of CWC, will draw upon primary and manuscript materials to offer the first full tracking of the unlikely trajectory of the work and Pound’s understanding of its importance in the five years between his acquisition of the manuscript and publication of his revised version in Little Review and then the Instigations of Ezra Pound in 1920.エズラ・パウンドの中国思想及び中国語の理解は、パウンドの著作、特に『キャントーズ』において、主題及び形式として重要な役割を果たしていることは知られる通りである。パウンドの中国及び中国語の理解の中心には、アーネスト・フェノロサの遺稿である“The Chinese Written Language as a Medium for Poetry”（未刊）があることもまた広く知られる通りである。このエッセイは、1914年にマリー・フェノロサからパウンドへ渡り、後にパウンドの編著により“The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry”（以下CWC）としてマーガレット・アンダーソンの月刊誌Little Reviewに1919年から4ヶ月に渡り掲載された。Little Reviewに寄せた最初の評論の概要で述べている通り、この評論をパウンドは「a study of the fundamentals of all aesthetics」であると信じていたが、この評論が広く迎えられるのはそう簡単なことではなかった。本稿は、“CWC”の文学文化史とその受容についての研究の一端をなすものであるが、一次資料に基づき“CWC”作品そのものと、フェノロサの遺稿を受け取ってからLittle Reviewの編著版が掲載される5年間、そして1920年のInstigations of Ezra Pound出版の間におけるパウンドの“CWC”の重要性に対する理解がたどった意外な軌跡を追う試みである

Anglo-American poetry and Japan, 1900-1950: A critical bibliography

From the advent of literary Japonisme late in the nineteenth century through the literary and cultural upheavals of the twentieth century Japanese literature, visual arts, aesthetic principles, and landscapes imaginative and real have attracted the attention of many of the most remarkable and remarked upon poets of Britain and the United States. This work provides a critical and bibliographical overview of the works that constitute the textual fabric of this attraction, focusing particularly on the first half of the twentieth century, when Japan first emerged as a determinative presence in Anglo-American verse. The introduction, 'Anglo-American Poetry and the Special Case of Japan', places the work under study in historical context, and is followed by four bibliographical sections. Section A, 'Critical and Comparative Studies', provides a chronological listing of general secondary works that have addressed the use of Japanese subjects and forms in Anglo-American poetry. Section B, 'Poets Central to the Study', provides chronological listings of primary and secondary materials by and about twelve writers whose mediation of Japanese subjects and forms was most significant among Anglo-American poets active from 1900 to 1950: Conrad Aiken, Richard Aldington, Laurence Binyon, Edmund Blunden, Witter Bynner, William Empson, Arthur Davison Ficke, John Gould Fletcher, Amy Lowell, William Plomer, Ezra Pound, and W. B. Yeats. Section C, 'Other Materials', includes selected listings of works by and about other Anglo-American poets whose mediation of Japanese materials has been significant (CA), a selected listing of relevant archives (CB), and a selected listing of secondary works that focus on the larger influence of Japan in the West (CC). Section D, 'Sources of Influence and Transmission', provides a bibliographical overview of the writers and texts that have provided Anglo-American poets with many of their images and understandings of Japan and Japanese forms

Brain Freeze

Community Collaboration. It’s something every public library worth its salt strives to create. Imagine our response at Fulton County Public Library, then, when a terrific opportunity for a multiple entity community collaboration was given to our library. We jumped on it

Laser diode initiated detonators for space applications

Ensign Bickford Aerospace Company (EBAC) has over ten years of experience in the design and development of laser ordnance systems. Recent efforts have focused on the development of laser diode ordnance systems for space applications. Because the laser initiated detonators contain only insensitive secondary explosives, a high degree of system safety is achieved. Typical performance characteristics of a laser diode initiated detonator are described in this paper, including all-fire level, function time, and output. A finite difference model used at EBAC to predict detonator performance, is described and calculated results are compared to experimental data. Finally, the use of statistically designed experiments to evaluate performance of laser initiated detonators is discussed