Returning to “Ezuversity”Feminism and Emancipation in the Letters of Ezra Pound to Forgotten Modernist Iris Barry, 1916-1917
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Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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ISSN: 0210-6124
Año de publicación: 2019
Volumen: 41
Número: 2
Páginas: 105-121
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos
Resumen
A comienzos del siglo XX, muchos y muchas poetas tuvieron la oportunidad de asistir a lo que el propio Ezra Pound denominó la “Ezuversity,” un método propio de instrucción a través del cual Pound los educaba en el arte de la lectura y la escritura. El presente estudio se centra en el caso de Iris Barry (1895-1969), poeta inglesa, novelista, crítica de cine y pionera modernista olvidada, a quien Pound envió una serie de cartas donde la tuteló y animó a emanciparse y descartar la idea de casarse. Además, se analiza “The Ezra Pound Period,” un ensayo escrito por Barry y publicado en 1931 en The Bookman que constituye su posterior respuesta a dichas misivas. El objetivo de este artículo es rescatar a Barry del olvido, así como señalar la labor que Pound desempeñó promocionando y liberando a muchas mujeres escritoras que más tarde contribuirían de manera significativa a la construcción del discurso modernista.
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