Review Article What the Transnational Collaboration says in The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

Abstract: This article explores the relationship between the ideal of authorial genius and the reality of collaboration in Ezra Pound’s use of Ernest Fenollosa’s notes to publish Fenollosa’s seminal essay The Chinese Written Character As A Medium For Poetry. In doing so we establish the connections and intercessions, the conversations and collaborations that I maintain were a key part of the production of Modernist works as we consider their transnational dimensions