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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'. 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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Book category Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem
• Author: Robert Kern
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780521496131
• ISBN: 0521496136
• ID: 02032872
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 624 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 159 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. April 1996

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