Marianne Moore and China - Orientalism and a Writing of America

Zusatztext Excellent study of Moore's interest in and contribution to American orientalism ... This fascinating study reveals an unexplored dimension of this poet's work, suggesting that it was not only Pound who mined Chinese sources Informationen zum Autor Cynthia Stamy is Visiting Fellow at the University of London School of Advanced Study, 1998- Zusammenfassung Marianne Moore's poetry offers a rich site from which to analze a tradition of American orientalism which focused upon China. This text examines why she chose to participate in that tradition and analyzes why her borrowing of Chinese models was so critical to the formation of her verse.

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• Authors: Cynthia Stamy, Cynthia (Visiting Fellow At the School of A Stamy, Cynthia (Visiting Fellow at the School of Advanced Study Stamy, Stamy Cynthia
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.1999
• EAN: 9780198184607
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818460-7
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Oxford English Monographs; Oxford English Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, China, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, American English, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets