Bathtub philology: Ezra Pound’s annotative realism
Mark Byron
Ezra Pound’s call to ‘Make It New’ spoke a sense of compositional immediacy his literary contemporaries by way an ancient motto: the inscription Shang Dynasty Emperor Ch’eng T’ang (1766–1753 BCE) made on side bathtub and immortalised more than thousand years later in Confucian&nbsp;Da Xue (The Great Learning):&nbsp;薪 日 薪 (xin ri xin). This is timely phrase: Modernism Studies, like many areas work, faces extraordinary challenges opportunities digital shift taking place at levels textual studies, interpretation theory. for cultural rinascimento demands not only that writers learn from fullest range venerable sources traditions course experimentation, but also their readers sharpen awareness as how material forms directly shape identity meaning texts. challenge cuts across recent work manuscript particularly representation complex Modernist texts manuscripts (for example Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project).
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