QUADERNI DI PALAZZO SERRA
QPS 15
2008
Università di Genova

Ezra Pound, Language and Persona
Contents

Foreword
Introduction: Persona vs. the Personal – Massimo Bacigalupo

I. Persona

l. Ezra Pound and the Masks of Memory – Helen M. Dennis
2. Voices From Ancient Egypt? Persona, Text, and Context in “De Ægypto” and “The Tomb at Akr çaar” – Gerd Schmidt
3. Pound and Henry James’s “Small Boy” Persona – Caterina Ricciardi
4. Ezra and Hem: A Moveable Friendship – Sam S. Baskett
5. Ezra Pound, Alfredo Casella, and the Fascist Cultural Nationalism of the Vivaldi Revival – Catherine Paul
6. Pound’s Reception of Noh Reconsidered: The Image and the Voice – Akitoshi Nagahata
7. The Noble Mask – Marie-Noelle Little
8. Ezra Pound as a Persona for Modem Finnish Poetry – Janna Kantola
9. A Psychiatrist’s Recollections of Ezra Pound – Romolo Rossi

II. Languages

10. Pound and/or Jackson: Traces af Jacksonian Humor in Ezra Pound’s Writing – Fabian Ironside
11. Ezra Pound and the Greek Anthology – H. K. Riikonen
12. Making Italian New: Pound’s Italian Between Dante and Propaganda – Stefano Maria Casella
13. The Cantos: Language of Sensation and Metaphors of Identity – Robert Rehder
14. Pound’s Lute: The West African Voice of the Gesere in The Pisan Cantos – Michael Faherty
15. “In Principio Verbum”: Seminar on Canto 74, Lines 76-145 – Walter Baumann
16. “Without an Ear of His Own”: Pound’s Janequin in Canto 75 – Ellen Keck Stauder
17. “A Certain Concordance of Size”: Pound’s Venice in The Pisan Cantos – John Gery
18. “No Man Knows His Luck ‘Til He’s Dead”: Ezra Pound’s Women of Trachis – Peter Liebregts
19. Updating the Pound Bibliography – Archie Henderson

III. Poets on/for Pound

20. Draft 61: Pyx  – Rachel Blau Du Plessis
21. The Poet Unmasked in The Pisan Cantos – Kevin Kiely
22. The Dark Ages – Robert Rehder
23. A Presto? – Stephen Romer

IV. Tigullio Itineraries

24. Tigullio Itineraries – Ezra Pound and Friends Massimo Bacigalupo