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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777994603321

Autore

Parry Amie Elizabeth <1964->

Titolo

Interventions into modernist cultures [[electronic resource] ] : poetry from beyond the empty screen / / Amie Elizabeth Parry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, NC, : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8223-8986-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Collana

Perverse modernities

Disciplina

811/.5409

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Chinese poetry - Taiwan - History and criticism

Literature, Comparative - American and Chinese

Literature, Comparative - Chinese and American

Modernism (Literature) - United States

Modernism (Literature) - Taiwan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1 Canonical Modernisms, Minor Modernisms, and the Cultural Politics of Fragmentation -- One. The Historicity of the Fragment: Toward a Critical Comparativism -- Two. "Completely Painted Over but Painted Full of Empty Spaces": Stein's American Allegories and the End of Progress -- Three. "Learning a Lesson in the Superficial Song Lyrics": Hsia Yü's "Underground" Poetry -- Four. "For the Other Overlapping Time": Pound's Ideogramic Universalism and Cha's Countermodernist Translation -- Conclusion. The Cultural Uses of an Interventionary Poetics.

Sommario/riassunto

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