Pompiliu Ştefănescu, Representations of Cultural Identities in the Poetic Discourse of Ezra Pound: a Study into the Imagery of the Other (unpublished PhD thesis, Galați, 2011)

Abstract

Dealing with the cultural images of the foreign (or the Other) and with his imaginary/ imagined projections, imagology was crystallised in the latter half of the twentieth century as an interdisciplinary approach which combines history of mentalities, ethnology, anthropology and sociology, in its investigation of the questions of alterity, identity, acculturation, deculturation, cultural alienation or the social imaginary. In what literature is concerned, literary image is also a carrier of a collection of ideas about the foreign Other, which, in time, goes through a socialising and literaturising process. Especially targeted by imagology are: travelogues, essays, drama and literary prose, and less, if at all, poetry.