에즈라 파운드의 이미지즘 연구 = A Study on the Imagism of Ezra Pound

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper proposes to explicate the origins and self-contradictory characteristics of the Imagist aesthetics of Ezra Pound. The Imagists were a group of poets who embraced the tenet of le mot juste initiated by the 19th-century French realist novel. The Imagists under the influence of French novelists, such as Flaubert. Maupassant. and Stendhal, pursued a poetics of hardness and precision of language. Their endeavours thus kept English poetry from sentimentalism and looseness of expression.
This Imagist poetics of exactness, clarity, and objectivity, however, could not hold Pound long. After two or three years of Imagist movement, Pound turned to Vorticism, a new aesthetics of subjectivity and dynamics. Pound now sought the effectiveness and energy in expression rather than the precision of language. How this sudden transition of Pound from objectivity to subjectivity could be? This study attempts to reveal the secret of Pound's transition.
The introductory chapter raises the question of Pound's sudden transition from Imagism to Vorticism. The second chapter treats the ambiguities in the word 'Image' and Imagism. The third chapter identifies the formative roles that T. E. Hulme and F. M. Ford played in shaping the earlier form of Poundian Imagism. The fourth chapter first explores the embryo of Pound's poetics out of his interest in the Proveneal and early Italian poetry, and then discusses the contradictions hidden in the three Imagist principles. The final chapter argues for the contributions Poundian Imagism made to modern English poetry.