Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem - Rilegato

Kern, Robert

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ISBN 10: 0521496136 ISBN 13: 9780521496131

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Riassunto

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.

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"...kern does provide an excellent discussion of Western perceptions of poetry and languages over the past three centuries...Kern has certainly provided an excellent basis for further study." Colin A. Clarke, American Studies International

"...a valuable contribution to modernist scholarship." Paideuma

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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'.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521496136
• ISBN 13: 9780521496131
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 336