American modernist poetry and the Chinese encounter
By: Edited by Zhang Yuejun and Stuart Christie
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780230391710
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese; Modernism (Literature); National characteristics, American, in literature; American poetry; Appreciation; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Description: "This edition documents the growth of interest in modernist and contemporary American poetry by scholars both inside and outside China. While the tradition of Asian-American literature and criticism is well-established, there has been less exposure to how China-based critics have viewed the increasing popularity of canonical and emerging American poetry. The volume uses a variety of approaches to argue a central theme--that the "encounter" of American poetry with contemporary Chinese modernity is occasioning a radical refashioning of not only American perspectives on Chinese culture and values but of the impact of Western values upon the Chinese worldview"--