Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: The European Hallucination
- 2 Emerson and the Language of Nature
- 3 Character Assassination: Representing Chinese in Nineteenth-Century Linguistics
- 4 Otto Jespersen and Chinese as the Future of Language
- 5 Language in Its Primary Use: Fenollosa and the Chinese Character
- Interchapter: Pound, Emerson, and the Poetics of Creative Reading
- 6 Modernizing Orientalism/Orientalizing Modernism: Ezra Pound, Chinese Translation, and English-as-Chinese
- 7 Seeing the World without Language: Gary Snyder and Chinese as American Speech
- Notes
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: The European Hallucination
- 2 Emerson and the Language of Nature
- 3 Character Assassination: Representing Chinese in Nineteenth-Century Linguistics
- 4 Otto Jespersen and Chinese as the Future of Language
- 5 Language in Its Primary Use: Fenollosa and the Chinese Character
- Interchapter: Pound, Emerson, and the Poetics of Creative Reading
- 6 Modernizing Orientalism/Orientalizing Modernism: Ezra Pound, Chinese Translation, and English-as-Chinese
- 7 Seeing the World without Language: Gary Snyder and Chinese as American Speech
- Notes
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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- Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem , pp. 309 - 316Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996