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Therefore his deconstruction of logocentrism is misguided (and we should reinvest in hermeneutics, perhaps even a transcultural hermeneutics)
These are not entirely unrelated, of course, since the character (uninflected by grammar) was perceived by Fenollosa to more faithfully embody both the verbal pivot and the nominal entities
I. Nadel (1999)
The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound
the characters from Mencius IV.2.11 are not used (or cited in a note) for "not words
Longxi Zhang (1992)
The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West
E. Pound (1938)
Guide to Kulchur
(1982)
27: "[Pound] expounded the theory in ABC of Reading [1934] and Guide to Kulchur [1938]; but before he clearly formulated it he had already been practising it in The Cantos for over a decade
I use literal here to refer to a writing system's elements or "atoms" of inscription, such as letters in alphabetic scripts or characters in written Chinese
E. Pound (1934)
ABC of Reading
certain: since we are speaking of poem and translation, any sense of completion the translation provides must be at least transliteral, rather than literal per se.2 In what follows, I deal brieï¬y with some of the ways Jacques Derrida has made suggestively similar readings of both Poundâs work and the verbal culture of China, and some of the related ways Pound has read that same verbal culture. Nonetheless, I would be content if nagging questions concerning Yang Lianâs reading of The Pisan Cantos (in Chinese) are borne in mind. We will return to them. Where else to start but with the well-known passage from Of Grammatology: The necessary decentering cannot be a philosophic or scientiï¬c act as such, since it is a question of dislocating, through access to another system linking speech and writing, the founding categories of language and the grammar of the epistémè. . . . It was normal that the breakthrough was more secure and more penetrating on the side of literature and poetic writing: normal also that it, like Nietzsche, at ï¬rst destroyed and caused to vacillate the transcendental authority and dominant category of the epistémè: being. This is the meaning of the work
positions asia critique – Duke University Press
Published: Dec 1, 2002
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