| East-West Exchange and Late Modernism: Williams, Moore, Pound Contributor(s): Qian, Zhaoming (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813940672 ISBN-13: 9780813940670 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $29.21 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 809.911 |
| LCCN: 2017021807 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.48" W x 8.82" (0.65 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In East-West Exchange and Late Modernism, Zhaoming Qian examines the nature and extent of Asian influence on some of the literary masterpieces of Western late modernism. Focusing on the poets William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound, Qian relates captivating stories about their interactions with Chinese artists and scholars and shows how these cross-cultural encounters helped ignite a return to their early experimental modes. Qian's sinuous readings of the three modernists' last books of verse--Williams's Pictures from Brueghel (1962), Moore's Tell Me, Tell Me (1966), and Pound's Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII (1969)--expand our understanding of late modernism by bringing into focus its heightened attention to meaning in space, its obsession with imaginative sensibility, and its increased respect for harmony between humanity and nature. |