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1045411
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b799781
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Kern, Robert.
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Orientalism, modernism, and the American poem /\ Robert Kern.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1996.
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;; 97
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1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages)
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| ISBN
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0511570465
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: 9780511570469
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0521496136
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9780521105552
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9780521496131
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. Introduction: The European Hallucination -- 2. Emerson and the Language of Nature -- 3. Character Assassination: Representing Chinese in Nineteenth-Century Linguistics -- 4. Otto Jespersen and Chinese as the Future of Language -- 5. Language in Its Primary Use: Fenollosa and the Chinese Character -- Interchapter: Pound, Emerson, and the Poetics of Creative Reading -- 6. Modernizing Orientalism/Orientalizing Modernism: Ezra Pound, Chinese Translation, and English-as-Chinese -- 7. Seeing the World without Language: Gary Snyder and Chinese as American Speech.
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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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American poetry-- Chinese influences.
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American poetry-- History and criticism.
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Chinese language-- Influence on foreign languages.
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Exoticism in literature.
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Languages in contact.
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Linguistics in literature.
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Modernism (Literature)-- United States.
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American poetry-- Chinese influences.
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American poetry.
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Chinese language-- Influence on foreign languages.
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Chinesisch
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Exoticism in literature.
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Exotismus
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Languages in contact.
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Linguistics in literature.
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Literature.
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Lyrik
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Moderne
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Modernism (Literature)
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China, In literature.
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China.
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United States.
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USA
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| Dewey Classification
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811.009
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| LC Classification
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PS159.C5K47 1996eb
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