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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823984603321

Autore

Katz Daniel

Titolo

American modernism's expatriate scene : the labour of translation / / Daniel Katz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-7486-5200-0

1-281-25191-7

9786611251918

0-7486-3087-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 197 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures

Disciplina

810.9004

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - United States

Expatriation in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-192) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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).