Orientalism, modernism, and the American poem / Robert Kern.

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...

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Main Author: Kern, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 97.
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