Stephen,

I always thought that deconstruction (taken in its positive, enriching sense
rather than the negative "words can mean whatever you want them to mean"
sense, which is erroneous IMHO) would find a great deal of interest in
Pound.

His attempt to seek unity for his long work not in narrative or discourse,
but in the interaction of resonant images which provide focal points for a
reading of the work, seems to me a justification of some of the insights
about the way a reader approaches a text put forward by literary theory in
the last thirty years.

Jason Monios


Stephen Wilson wrote:

you might also consider that Formalism in its various forms, from
>New Criticism to Deconstruction, finds Pound (& particularly the Cantos)
>uncomfortable reading & that this has been a century of Foremalist
>criticism.
>
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