American modernism's expatriate scene : the labour of translation / [electronic resource]
Katz, Daniel,author.
This book attempts to address the paradoxes inherent in international modernism (a literary movement which at once strove to cross borders of nation  language  and tradition yet which at the same time often endorsed nationalist and racial models of identity).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-192) and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Native well being: Henry James and the "cosmopolite" -- The mother's tongue: seduction, authenticity, and interference in The ambassadors -- Ezra Pound's American scenes: Henry James and the labour of translation -- Pound and translation: ideogram and the vulgar tongue -- Gertrude Stein, Wyndham Lewis, and the American language -- Jack Spicer's After Lorca: translation as delocalization -- Homecomings: the poet's prose of Ashbery, Schuyler and Spicer.
This book attempts to address the paradoxes inherent in international modernism (a literary movement which at once strove to cross borders of nation  language  and tradition yet which at the same time often endorsed nationalist and racial models of identity).
Modernism (Literature)
American literature
American literature