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American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter

Author : Z. Yuejun,S. Christie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230391727

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American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounteroffers a framework for understanding the variety of imagined encounters by eight different American poets with their imagined 'Chinese' subject. The method is historical and materialist, insofar as the contributors to the volume read the claims of specific poems alongside the actual and tumultuous changes China faced between 1911 and 1979. Even where specific poems are found to be erroneous, the contributors to the volume suggest that each of the poets attempted to engage their 'Chinese' subject with a degree of commitment that presaged imaginatively China's subsequent dominance. The poems stand as unique artifacts, via proxy and in the English language, for the rise of China in the American imagination. The audience of the volume is international, including the growing number of scholars and graduate students in Chinese universities working on American literature and comparative cultural studies, as well as already established commentators and students in the west.

American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter

Author : Z. Yuejun,S. Christie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230391727

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American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter by Z. Yuejun,S. Christie Pdf

American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounteroffers a framework for understanding the variety of imagined encounters by eight different American poets with their imagined 'Chinese' subject. The method is historical and materialist, insofar as the contributors to the volume read the claims of specific poems alongside the actual and tumultuous changes China faced between 1911 and 1979. Even where specific poems are found to be erroneous, the contributors to the volume suggest that each of the poets attempted to engage their 'Chinese' subject with a degree of commitment that presaged imaginatively China's subsequent dominance. The poems stand as unique artifacts, via proxy and in the English language, for the rise of China in the American imagination. The audience of the volume is international, including the growing number of scholars and graduate students in Chinese universities working on American literature and comparative cultural studies, as well as already established commentators and students in the west.

Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem

Author : Robert Kern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521496131

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Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem by Robert Kern Pdf

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.

Orientalism and Modernism

Author : Zhaoming Qian
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822316692

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Orientalism and Modernism by Zhaoming Qian Pdf

Chinese culture held a well-known fascination for modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. What is less known but is made fully clear by Zhaoming Qian is the degree to which oriental culture made these poets the modernists they became. This ambitious and illuminating study shows that Orientalism, no less than French symbolism and Italian culture, is a constitutive element of Modernism. Consulting rare and unpublished materials, Qian traces Pound's and Williams's remarkable dialogues with the great Chinese poets--Qu Yuan, Li Bo, Wang Wei, and Bo Juyi--between 1913 and 1923. His investigation reveals that these exchanges contributed more than topical and thematic ideas to the Americans' work and suggests that their progressively modernist style is directly linked to a steadily growing contact and affinity for similar Chinese styles. He demonstrates, for example, how such influences as the ethics of pictorial representation, the style of ellipsis, allusion, and juxtaposition, and the Taoist/Zen-Buddhist notion of nonbeing/being made their way into Pound's pre-Fenollosan Chinese adaptations, Cathay, Lustra, and the Early Cantos, as well as Williams's Sour Grapes and Spring and All. Developing a new interpretation of important work by Pound and Williams, Orientalism and Modernism fills a significant gap in accounts of American Modernism, which can be seen here for the first time in its truly multicultural character.

Twentieth-Century Literary Encounters in China

Author : Jeffrey Mather
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000727487

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Twentieth-Century Literary Encounters in China by Jeffrey Mather Pdf

From the travel writing of the eccentric plant collector and Reginald Farrer, to Emily Hahn’s insider depictions of bohemian life in semi-colonial Shanghai, to Ezra Pound’s mediated ‘journeys’ to Southwest China via the explorer Joseph Rock – Anglo-American representations of China during the first half of the twentieth century were often unconventional in terms of style, form, and content. By examining a range of texts that were written in the flux of travel – including poems, novels, autobiographies – this study argues that the tumultuous social and political context of China’s Republican Period (1912-49) was a key setting for conceptualizing cultural modernity in global and transnational terms. In contrast with accounts that examine China’s influence on Western modernism through language, translation, and discourse, the book recovers a materialist engagement with landscapes, objects, and things as transcribed through travel, ethnographic encounter, and embodied experience. The book is organized by three themes which suggest formal strategies through which notions cultural modernity were explored or contested: borderlands, cosmopolitan performances, and mobile poetics. As it draws from archival sources in order to develop these themes, this study offers a place-based historical perspective on China’s changing status in Western literary cultures.

The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature

Author : Oxford Editor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198824039

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The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature by Oxford Editor Pdf

An essential and field-defining resource, this volume brings fresh approaches to major US novels, poetry, and performance literature of the twentieth century. With sections on 'structures', 'movements', 'attachments', and 'imaginaries', this handbook brings a new set of tools and perspectives to the rich and diverse traditions of American literary production. The editors have turned to leading as well as up-and-coming scholars in the field to foregroundmethodological concerns that assess the challenges of transnational perspectives, critical race and indigenous studies, disability and care studies, environmental criticism, affect studies, gender analysis, media and sound studies, and other cutting-edge approaches. The 20 original chapters include the discussionof working-class literature, border narratives, children's literature, novels of late-capitalism, nuclear poetry, fantasies of whiteness, and Native American, African American, Asian American, and Latinx creative texts.

Interventions Into Modernist Cultures

Author : Amie Elizabeth Parry
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822338181

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Interventions Into Modernist Cultures by Amie Elizabeth Parry Pdf

DIVA comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in Taiwan and the United States, as well as in immigrant Asian American writing./div

Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930-1965: Volume 2

Author : Victor Bascara,Josephine Nock-Hee Park
Publisher : Asian American Literature in T
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108835602

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Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930-1965: Volume 2 by Victor Bascara,Josephine Nock-Hee Park Pdf

Leading scholars provide illuminating and engaging perspectives on a long neglected, yet incredibly eventful, period (1930-1965) of Asian American literature.

Chinese Poetic Modernisms

Author : Paul Manfredi,Christopher Lupke
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004402898

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Chinese Poetic Modernisms by Paul Manfredi,Christopher Lupke Pdf

This volume explores Chinese poetic modernism from its origins in the 1920s through 21st century manifestations. Modernisms as a title reflects the full complexity of the ideas and forms which can be associated with this literary-historical term.

The Power of Culture

Author : Priscilla Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443887823

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The Power of Culture by Priscilla Roberts Pdf

China and the United States, two massive economic and military powers, cannot avoid engaging with each other. Enjoying what is often termed “the most important bilateral relationship in the world”, the two sometimes cooperate, but often compete, as their interests come into conflict. Both countries are separated not just by the Pacific Ocean, but also by their very different histories, experiences, societies, customs, and outlooks. Non-governmental, unofficial relationships and exchanges are often as important as formal dealings in determining the climate of Sino-American relations. For several decades in the mid-twentieth century, Chinese and Americans were virtually isolated from each other, trapped in icy hostility. Chinese scholars are now making up for lost time. This assortment of essays, most by mainland Chinese academics and students, focuses upon the role of culture – very broadly defined – in Sino-American affairs. Taking a holistic approach, in this collection over thirty authors focus on such topics as the influence of ideology, the impact of geopolitics, the use of rhetoric, soft power, educational encounters and exchanges, immigration, gender, race, identity, literature, television, movies, music, and the press. Cultural factors are, as the authors demonstrate, enormously significant in affecting how Chinese and Americans think about and approach each other, both as individuals and at the state level.

Whitmanism, Imagism, and Modernism in China and America

Author : Guiyou Huang
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 157591011X

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Whitmanism, Imagism, and Modernism in China and America by Guiyou Huang Pdf

This book is a cross-cultural study of two major literatures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It traces the confluence of American and Chinese literatures in the early twentieth century, when modernism reached its full powers in Europe and America, and to a lesser extent, in China. The author examines how classical Chinese literature affected the birth of American modernism as represented by Ezra Pound; he also investigates how American literature contributed to the formation and development of China's New Poetry.

Christianity and Confucianism

Author : Christopher Hancock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567657695

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Christianity and Confucianism by Christopher Hancock Pdf

Christianity and Confucianism: Culture, Faith and Politics, sets comparative textual analysis against the backcloth of 2000 years of cultural, political, and religious interaction between China and the West. As the world responds to China's rise and China positions herself for global engagement, this major new study reawakens and revises an ancient conversation. As a generous introduction to biblical Christianity and the Confucian Classics, Christianity and Confucianism tells a remarkable story of mutual formation and cultural indebtedness. East and West are shown to have shaped the mind, heart, culture, philosophy and politics of the other - and far more, perhaps, than either knows or would want to admit. Christopher Hancock has provided a rich and stimulating resource for scholars and students, diplomats and social scientists, devotees of culture and those who pursue wisdom and peace today.

Experimental Chinese Literature

Author : Tong King Lee
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004293380

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Experimental Chinese Literature by Tong King Lee Pdf

In Experimental Chinese Literature Tong King Lee explores how translation, technology, and text come together in the works of contemporary Chinese authors in the creation of a material poetics.

Modernist Poetics in China

Author : Tiao Wang,Ronald Schleifer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031009136

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Modernist Poetics in China by Tiao Wang,Ronald Schleifer Pdf

This book examines organizations of consumerist economics, which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the West and at the turn of the twenty-first century in China, in relation to modernist poetics. Consumerist economics include the artificial “person” of the corporation, the vertical integration of production, and consumption based upon desire as well as necessity. This book assumes that poetics can be understood as a theory in practice of how a world works. Tracing the relation of economics to poetics, the book analyzes the impersonality of indirect discourse in Qian Zhongshu and James Joyce; the impressionist discourses of Mang Ke and Ezra Pound; and discursive difficulty in Mo Yan and William Faulkner. Bringing together two notably distinct cultures and traditions, this book allows us to comprehend modernism as a theory in practice of lived experience in cultures organized around consumption.

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

Author : Ernest Fenollosa,Ezra Pound,Jonathan Stalling,Lucas Klein
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780823228706

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry by Ernest Fenollosa,Ezra Pound,Jonathan Stalling,Lucas Klein Pdf

First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa’s essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that continues to shape our poetic and stylistic preferences: the idea that poems consist primarily of images; the idea that the sentence form with active verb mirrors relations of natural force. But previous editions of the essay represent Pound’s understanding—it is fair to say, his appropriation—of the text. Fenollosa’s manuscripts, in the Beinecke Library of Yale University, allow us to see this essay in a different light, as a document of early, sustained cultural interchange between North America and East Asia. Pound’s editing of the essay obscured two important features, here restored to view: Fenollosa’s encounter with Tendai Buddhism and Buddhist ontology, and his concern with the dimension of sound in Chinese poetry. This book is the definitive critical edition of Fenollosa’s important work. After a substantial Introduction, the text as edited by Pound is presented, together with his notes and plates. At the heart of the edition is the first full publication of the essay as Fenollosa wrote it, accompanied by the many diagrams, characters, and notes Fenollosa (and Pound) scrawled on the verso pages. Pound’s deletions, insertions, and alterations to Fenollosa’s sometimes ornate prose are meticulously captured, enabling readers to follow the quasi-dialogue between Fenollosa and his posthumous editor. Earlier drafts and related talks reveal the developmentof Fenollosa’s ideas about culture, poetry, and translation. Copious multilingual annotation is an important feature of the edition. This masterfully edited book will be an essential resource for scholars and poets and a starting point for a renewed discussion of the multiple sources of American modernist poetry.