num_pages: 336
description: 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." Through analysis and contextualization, 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.
language: English
title: Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem
titlecomplete: Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 97)
ratings_count: 8
series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
publisher: Cambridge University Press