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Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 97) Hardcover - 1996
by Kern, Robert
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- Title Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 97)
- Author Kern, Robert
- Binding Hardcover
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date 1996-04-26
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0521496136.G
- ISBN 9780521496131 / 0521496136
- Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.27 x 0.93 in (23.62 x 15.93 x 2.36 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects American poetry - History and criticism, Languages in contact
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95017535
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.009
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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.