Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521105552)

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." Through analysis and contextualization, 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.

Author: Robert Kern
ISBN-10: 0521105552
ISBN-13: 9780521105552
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/19/2009
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d