共同体としての都市 : Ezra PoundとCharles Olsonについて
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This paper examines what it means to be communal for Ezra Pound and Charles Olson, the poets who persistently searched after the ideal city in their works. At first I touch upon the latest trend of urban sociology, and provide the appropriate place to investigate Pound's "The Pisan Cantos" and Charles Olson's "Place; & Names." In the first section, Pound's use of Leo Frobenius' story is treated as the crucial matter to be analyzed. According to Frobenius, "Wagadu," an imaginary city appearing in several African myths, is regarded as the spiritual power shared among its inhabitants. As far as Pound's poetics is based on such a view, his stance may be considered as communal to some extent. But his hero worship is incorrigibly totalitarian and reactionary against the public at large. In that regard, Olson criticizes harshly a famous phrase in The Cantos, "The enormous tragedy of the dream in the peasant's bent shoulders," and points out "social snobbery" and "fascism" of Pound. The second section is allotted for the close reading of Olson's "Place; & Names." Obviously the central idea of "history" in this poem is inspired by the term '"istorin," which means "to find out for yourself." This etymological observation enables Olson to demonstrate that history is an individual story about what really counts in each actual event. Besides that, referring to Robert Duncan's terminology and Alfred North Whitehead's cosmology, Olson proves that every particular entity is universal, and every universal being is particular. Then the city in "Place; & Names" is considered as a genuine community, which could be described by the individual taking part in the "commonness." In conclusion, I sum up my interpretation of The Cantos as "the poem including history," evaluating his innovative aspects. At the same time, however, I emphasize that the heroic tendency of Pound can not but oppress the formation of the communal constitution. Then Itreat Olson's unti-heroic maxim in The Special View of History, and display how his poetic discourse in "Place; & Names" leads us to the recognition of the city as a community.
- 静岡大学の論文
- 2001-01-31
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