عنوان

Orientalism, modernism, and the American poem /

(Number (ISBN

0511570465

(Number (ISBN

9780511570469

Erroneous ISBN

0521496136

Erroneous ISBN

9780521105552

Erroneous ISBN

9780521496131

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b799781

Title Proper

Orientalism, modernism, and the American poem /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Robert Kern.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1996.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages)

Series Title

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;

Volume Designation

97

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

1. Introduction: The European Hallucination -- 2. Emerson and the Language of Nature -- 3. Character Assassination: Representing Chinese in Nineteenth-Century Linguistics -- 4. Otto Jespersen and Chinese as the Future of Language -- 5. Language in Its Primary Use: Fenollosa and the Chinese Character -- Interchapter: Pound, Emerson, and the Poetics of Creative Reading -- 6. Modernizing Orientalism/Orientalizing Modernism: Ezra Pound, Chinese Translation, and English-as-Chinese -- 7. Seeing the World without Language: Gary Snyder and Chinese as American Speech.

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Text of Note

This is a critical and historical interpretation of 'Oriental' influences on American modernist poetry. Kern equates Fenollosa and Pound's 'discovery' of Chinese writing with the American pursuit of a natural language for poetry, what Emerson had termed the 'language of nature'. This language of nature is here shown to be a mythic conception continuous with the Renaissance idea of the language of Adam - a language lacking any difference between what it is and what it means. Through analysing and contextualising the nineteenth-century works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ernest Fenollosa and the twentieth-century creations of Ezra Pound and Gary Snyder, Kern sheds light on the three contemporary nexuses of his search: the cultural study of Orientalism and the West, the evolution of Indo-European linguistic theory, and the intellectual tradition of American modernist poetry.

Title

Orientalism, modernism, and the American poem.

American poetry-- Chinese influences.

American poetry-- History and criticism.

Chinese language-- Influence on foreign languages.

Exoticism in literature.

Languages in contact.

Linguistics in literature.

Modernism (Literature)-- United States.

American poetry-- Chinese influences.

American poetry.

Chinese language-- Influence on foreign languages.

Chinesisch

Exoticism in literature.

Exotismus

Languages in contact.

Linguistics in literature.

Literature.

Lyrik

Moderne

Modernism (Literature)

China, In literature.

China.

United States.

USA

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Kern, Robert.

Date of Transaction

20201207121217.0

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[Book]

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