Robert Kern

Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9780521105552
• ISBN-10: 0521105552
• Artikelnr.: 26009404

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the European hallucination
2. Emerson and the language of nature
3. Character assassination: representing Chinese in nineteenth-century linguistics
4. Otto Jesperson 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. Modernising Orientalism/Orientalising modernism: Ezra Pound, Chinese translation, and English-as-Chinese
7. Seeing the world without language: Gary Snyder and Chinese as American speech.