James Dowthwaite was born and raised in Winchester and studied, first, at Royal Holloway, University of London, before completing his doctorate at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford in July 2016. He now teachings English and American literature at the University of Jena, having previously taught at the University of Göttingen. He lives in Heidelberg with his wife.

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• Introduction: ‘The Word Beyond Formulated Language’Chapter 1. ‘End Fact. Try Fiction’: Post-Philology in Pound’s Early WritingChapter 2 Re-assessing The Chinese Written Character: Language, Consciousness, and PhenomenaChapter 3 ‘Words So Full of Detail’: Paideuma and Linguistic RelativityChapter 4 Definition and Debabelization: Utopian Language in the Work of Ezra Pound and C.K. OgdenChapter 5 ‘In Nature are Signatures’: The Problem of Universals in Modernist PoetryAfterword: Pound’s Linguistic Legacy

James Dowthwaite was born and raised in Winchester and studied, first, at Royal Holloway, University of London, before completing his doctorate at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford in July 2016. He now teachings English and American literature at the University of Jena, having previously taught at the University of Göttingen. He lives in Heidelberg with his wife.

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• Introduction: ‘The Word Beyond Formulated Language’Chapter 1. ‘End Fact. Try Fiction’: Post-Philology in Pound’s Early WritingChapter 2 Re-assessing The Chinese Written Character: Language, Consciousness, and PhenomenaChapter 3 ‘Words So Full of Detail’: Paideuma and Linguistic RelativityChapter 4 Definition and Debabelization: Utopian Language in the Work of Ezra Pound and C.K. OgdenChapter 5 ‘In Nature are Signatures’: The Problem of Universals in Modernist PoetryAfterword: Pound’s Linguistic Legacy

James Dowthwaite was born and raised in Winchester and studied, first, at Royal Holloway, University of London, before completing his doctorate at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford in July 2016. He now teachings English and American literature at the University of Jena, having previously taught at the University of Göttingen. He lives in Heidelberg with his wife.

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• Introduction: ‘The Word Beyond Formulated Language’Chapter 1. ‘End Fact. Try Fiction’: Post-Philology in Pound’s Early WritingChapter 2 Re-assessing The Chinese Written Character: Language, Consciousness, and PhenomenaChapter 3 ‘Words So Full of Detail’: Paideuma and Linguistic RelativityChapter 4 Definition and Debabelization: Utopian Language in the Work of Ezra Pound and C.K. OgdenChapter 5 ‘In Nature are Signatures’: The Problem of Universals in Modernist PoetryAfterword: Pound’s Linguistic Legacy