The Questing,Passive Gaze:Ezra Pound’s“Yeux Glauques,”John Ruskin,and the Pre-Raphaelite Moment
作者机构:Florida Atlantic University
出 版 物:《Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures》 (外国语言与文化(英文))
年 卷 期:2019年第3卷第1期
页 面:49-56页
学科分类:0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学]
主 题:Ezra Pound John Ruskin Pre-Raphaelites Hugh Selwyn Mauberley women in poetry
摘 要:“Yeux Glauques,the sixth poem of Ezra Pound’s 1920 Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,has been read as an indictment of Victorian viewers’and readers’rejection of Pre-Raphaelite art and poetry,a rejection proleptic of Georgian readers’rejection of Pound’s own *** is largely *** the poem’s citation(in its first stanza)of John Ruskin’s“Of Kings’Treasuriescan be read as directing readers’attention to Ruskin’s 1864 lecture,in part an exhortation to examine the etymologies of the words of the texts they *** an etymological examination of“glauquesin the poem’s title in effect reinforces a secondary implication of the poem as a whole:that the Pre-Raphaelite movement suffered from its members’failure to convincingly or feelingly represent active female subjectivity.