Subject: Call for Papers Concerning Pound and Confucianism Fellow Poundians, I am reseninding this email with an extension date to April 15. I have just returned from the Outer Hebrides, where I trekked out to see the stones of Callanish--all of which was great. But returning, I find that my email has been closed down by the university in error. So all is up and running again, and so I ask you to please submit abstracts concerning our Pound and Confucius session at the MLA. Two submissions have reached me through fax, but for you others, please send again. Thanks, Robert K As you know, Pound was getting Chinese from all corners from about 1913 onwards. He had inherited the Fenollosa papers and through them, became acquainted with Taoist and Buddhist poets of the T'ang period, as well as with Chinese aesthetics and poetics generally. But he also started reading Confucius about this time, and as Mary Cheadle argues, Pound remained a Confucian virtually all the rest of his works and days, even if his understanding of Confucianism changed time and again. Given the enduring and profound impact of Confucianism on Pound's work and thought, please consider leading a 20 minute learned discussion (as opposed to exclusively reading from a paper--we need more life in our sessions.) on the subject at this year's MLA Convention. Send title, abstract, and short vita to Robert Kibler, via e-mail, no later than 15 March. Send to: [log in to unmask] All the arts lose virtue against the essential reality of Creatures going about their business among the Equally earnest elements of nature. Robinson Jeffers, "Boats in Fog" Robert E. Kibler, Assoc. Prof. English and Humanities Director, Northern Plains Writing Project Room 229 West, Hartnett Hall Minot State University 500 University Blvd West Minot, north Dakota 58707 701 858 3876 [log in to unmask]