All the suggested avenues are worth thinking about. I might also add that, in connection with cubist influence on Cantos form, someone might investigate a possibly direct link between Cantos form and Wyndham Lewis's Vorticist paintings. ==Dan At 08:29 AM 07/02/2002 -0700, you wrote: > I don't know, Professor Pearlman; in fact, this >is a very important question, because we can trace >Pound's style in The Cantos IF we get such a strong >connection between it and the cubists. > I am inclined to think the cubists not only >flattened space but they included time in the >composition, as you pointed out in Duchamp's example. >If we take Picasso's paintings (mostly portraits)we >can see he portraits different poses in only one >picture, which I think, obliges us to consider a >compression of time, analogous to that practised by >Pound in the Cantos. When Pound writes, in the fourth >Canto: "Then Actaeon: Vidal", he strikes a composite >figure in our minds. And there's inevitably the >question of time. > Some say we have to consider it under >ideological analysis, pointing to the fact that >immobilism in history is obviously conservative; on >the other hand, we can think Pound is always proposing >Ovid's method of intervening transformation. Then we >finally have the Chinese aspect, i.e., to propose >composite figures as an ideogram, a cultural ideogram >which strengthens the force of presentation in poetry. > What do you think? > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free >http://sbc.yahoo.com ===================================================== Dan Pearlman's home page: http://pages.zdnet.com/danpearl/danpearlman/ My new fiction collection, THE BEST-KNOWN MAN IN THE WORLD AND OTHER MISFITS, may be ordered online at http://www.aardwolfpress.com/ "Perfectly-crafted gems": Jack Dann, Nebula & World Fantasy Award winner Director, Council for the Literature of the Fantastic: http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/ OFFICE: Department of English University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 Tel.: 401 874-4659 Fax: (253) 681-8518 email: [log in to unmask]