Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem
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Sprache:Englisch
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
29.11.2008
Verlag
Cambridge AcademicSeitenzahl
336
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/2 cm
Gewicht
500 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-521-10555-2
Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem 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 in which things themselves are also signs. Analyzing and contextualizing 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.
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