Ezra Pound

Introduction to Maya Deren Maya Deren is one of the prominent figures in American experimental filmmaking, who is celebrated as a ‘legend’ and the “Mother of Avant-Garde” (Hornung 2005, p. 280; Pramaggiore 1997, p. 17). Maya Deren was born Eleanora Derenkowsky into a family of prominent educated Russian Jews in 1917, in Kiev, during the birth of the Revolution (Doneson n.d., p. 327; Fabe 1996, p. 146; McPherson 2005, p. 8). She was the only child of Solomon David Derenkowsky, a psychiatrist…

Chapter 1: Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It 's Not) Most stories include a quest, in which the main character of a story embarks on a journey and eventually learns something new. According to Thomas C. Foster, a quest consists of five things; (a) a quester, (b) a place to go, (c) a stated reason to go there, (d) challenges and trials en route, and (e) a real reason to go there. Every quest is educational, in which the quester gains self-knowledge. The stated reason for a quest is almost…

uncertainty Modern Poetry Chicago poets: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), Hart Crane (1899-1932) Imagist poets T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) Robert Frost (1874-1963) Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) The Fugitives / Agrarians Imagism (1909-1917) U.S.: Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), John Gould Fletcher, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams England: F.S. Flint, Richard Aldington, D.H. Lawrence T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915) The Waste Land (1922) 《荒原》 The Four…