Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem

Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 335
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ISBN-10 : 9780521496131
ISBN-13 : 0521496136
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Book Synopsis Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem by : Robert Kern

Download or read book Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem written by Robert Kern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-26 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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