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studies in American and British Modernist poetry

Cheng Ming: a new paideuma

  • "Frobenius uses the term Paideuma for the tangle or complex of the inrooted ideas of any period. . . . I shall use Paideuma for the gristly roots of ideas that are in action."
    --Ezra Pound
  • "Paideuma is the ideal vehicle for the ongoing specialized study of Ezra Pound which is so badly needed. All his life, Pound insisted on the importance of a 'place where people could communicate' and this is what the magazine is accomplishing for scholars all over the world who are concentrating on his works. The editors have already demonstrated an admirable willingness to give hospitality to conflicting points of view."
    --James Laughlin

Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship has expanded its scope to include scholarship on Modernist poetry in English. The original Paideuma was published under the editorship of Carroll F. Terrell by the National Poetry Foundation in 1972. It has earned NPF international renown as the foremost publisher of scholarly work on Ezra Pound and the Pound tradition. The new Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry will extend the purview of the original journal and will allow NPF to serve its expanding mission.

The inaugural volume of Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry contains a variety of compelling essays meant to reflect the state of Modernist studies in 2003. These articles should initiate a discussion of the state of Modernist studies, Modernist poets, and approaches to Modernist poetry and poetics that we hope will continue in future issues.

Essays in this volume:

  • The Dream of Modernism by James Longenbach
  • Constitutions of Silence: Mr. Eliot's Second Revolution by Stan Smith
  • Modernism in a Transnational Landscape: Spatial Poetics, Postcolonialism, and Gender in Césaire's
  • Cahier/Notebook and Cha's dictée by Susan Stanford Friedman
  • Feminist Location and Mina Loy's "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose" by Cristanne Miller
  • Wallace Stevens, Roger Caillois and "The Pure Good of Theory" by Leon Surette
  • From the Transcendental to the Immanent Sublime: The Poetry of William Carlos Williams, 1913-1917 by Burton Hatlen
  • Remaking Canto 74 by Ronald Bush
  • Directio Voluntatis: Pound's Economics in the Economy of The Cantos by A. David Moody
  • The Search for "Prime Words": Pound, Duchamp and the Nominalist Ethos by Marjorie Perloff
  • "Fragments of a Faith Forgotten": Ezra Pound, H.D. and the Occult Tradition by Demetres Tryphonopoulos
  • Marianne Moore and The Tao of Painting by Zhaoming Qian
  • A Modernist Epithalamium: Marianne Moore's "Marriage" by Patricia C. Willis
  • Auden and Son: Environment, Evolution, Exhibition by Douglas Mao
  • George Oppen and 'That Primitive, Hegel' by Peter Nicholls
  • Making It Free: Mitchell Goodman's Radical Williams by Christopher MacGowan
  • Some Problems with Being Contemporary: Aging Critics, Younger Poets and the New Century by Charles Altieri

Paideuma Contributors include:

  • Massimo Bacigalupo
  • James Longenbach
  • Louis Martz
  • Akiko Miyake
  • Max Nänny
  • Omar Pound
  • Peter Quartermain
  • Sister Bernetta Quinn
  • Tim Redman
  • M. L. Rosenthal
  • James J. Wilhelm
  • Hugh Witemeyer
  • Ronald Bush
  • Guy Davenport
  • Donald Davie
  • Mary de Rachewiltz
  • Angela Elliott
  • Donald Gallup
  • David Gordon
  • Walter Baumann
  • Eva Hesse
  • Hugh Kenner
  • and others...

Subscription information:

2000 individual $20.00; institute $37.00; foreign (including Canadian) subscriptions, please add $5.00 per year.

Selected back issues are available. Contact us for price list.

Manuscript submission guidelines: Paideuma

  1. Documentation

    Contributors are asked to document their manuscripts with a "Works Cited" list plus parenthetical internal references. (Footnotes should be used only for substantive information.) See The MLA Style Manual (1985), and the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 4th edition (1995) (this latter in even greater detail) for ample directions, information on, and examples of this "Works Cited" plus in-text references documentation.

  2. Manuscripts

    Please submit two printed copies of your manuscript, in addition to a computer disk copy. We use primarily Microsoft Word for Macintosh. However, we can readily convert from PC versions of Microsoft Word and from any version of WordPerfect. If you can submit your disk copy in any of these forms, please do so, as you may thereby save us and yourself some time. But if you are unable to do so, please be sure to include a clean printed copy, with substantial margins and printed on a laser printer, so that we can try to scan in your manuscript text.

  3. Permissions

    Contributors of manuscripts using unpublished Pound materials must secure permission for their publication in Paideuma. To request permission, write

    Mr. Declan Spring, Editor
    New Directions
    80 Eighth Avenue
    New York, NY 10011

    In your request for publication permission, please identify the Pound manuscript(s), typescript(s), and/or letter(s) your essay cites, the extent of the quoted materials it uses, and the library(ies) in which the materials are located. On being granted publication permission, send a copy of the permission letter to Paideuma.

  4. Pound Title Abbreviations

    ABCE
    ABC of Economics
    ABCR
    ABC of Reading
    ATH
    Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony
    Cav
    Pound's Cavalcanti
    CEP
    Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound
    CNTJ
    The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan
    Con Analects
    Confucian Analects
    Con GD
    Confucius / Great Digest & Unwobbling Pivot
    Con Odes
    The Confucian Odes / The Classic Anthology
    Elek
    Elektra: A Play by EP and Rudd Fleming
    EP&J
    Ezra Pound and Japan
    EP&M
    Ezra Pound and Music
    EP&VA
    Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts
    GB
    Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir
    GK
    Guide to Kulchur
    HSM
    Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
    HSP
    Homage to Sextus Propertius
    J/M
    Jefferson and/or Mussolini
    L
    The Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941
    L/MA
    ... / The Letters of EP to Margaret Anderson
    L/BC
    EP and Senator Bronson Cutting / ...
    L/FMF
    The Correspondence Between EP and F. M. Ford
    L/ACH
    Letters of EP to Alice Corbin Henderson
    L/JJ
    ... / The Letters of EP to James Joyce
    L/JL
    EP and James Laughlin / Selected Letters
    L/WL
    P/Lewis: The Letters of EP and Wyndham Lewis
    L/E & DP
    Ezra and Dorothy Pound / Letters in Captivity, 1945-1946
    L/JQ
    The Selected Letters of EP to John Quinn
    L/DS
    EP and Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters 1909-14
    L/TW
    P, Thayer, Watson & The Dial / ...
    L/JT
    EP / John Theobald Letters
    L/GT
    The Correspondence Between EP and Con. Tinkham
    L/WCW
    Pound/Williams: Selected Letters of EP and WCW
    L/LZ
    ... / Selected Letters of EP and Louis Zukofsky
    LE
    Literary Essays, ed. T. S. Eliot
    MIN
    Make It New
    NPL
    Postscript to The Natural Philosophy of Love
    PD
    Pavannes and Divagations
    P
    Personae / The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound, rev. ed. by L. Baechler and A. W. Litz
    P&P
    EP's Poetry and Prose / Contributions to Periodiicals, ed. L. Baechler, A. W. Litz & J.Longenbach
    PE
    Polite Essays
    PM
    Patria Mia
    RSWWII
    "EP Speaking": Radio Speeches of WW II
    SP
    Selected Prose, 1905-1965, ed. W. Cookson
    SR
    The Spirit of Romance
    T
    EP / Translations
    WTSF
    A Walking Tour in Southern France
    WT
    Sophocles: Women of Trachis

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