Orient and Orientalisms in US-American Poetry and Poetics
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Transcription
ISBN-10
3631576080
ISBN-13
9783631576083
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New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
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Peter Lang AG
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DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 23rd, 2009
Print length
362 Pages
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476 grams
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15.20 x 21.10 x 1.90 cms
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: from c 1900 -ELT background & reference material
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The "Transcription: Cultures - Concepts - Controversies" series is dedicated to publishing works that explore culture as cultures, interrogates concepts, methods, and theories, and intervenes in controversies about cultures and concepts. The term transcription acknowledges that all cultures engage in acts of translating and transforming performed, spoken, written, or digitalized languages, images, and sounds from one medium into another.
This collection of essays explores the poetics and politics of US-American poetry’s diverse and distinct investments in the imaginary space of ‘the Orient’. Reading American poets – from Emily Dickinson to Frank Bidart, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Kimiko Hahn – the contributions show how tropes of the Orient have fabricated screens onto which we project matters by no means foreign, but very close to home. As we accompany American poets on their journeys East, we are bound to arrive in – culturally specific – territories of the West. Traversing cultural crossroads and rediscovering places as ‘exotic’ as Banyan ashrams and Bostonian living rooms, these expeditions shed new light on crucial moments of American literary and cultural history. And, on the way, they reassess what Edward Said, thirty years ago, conceived of as Orientalism, and how far this concept has travelled in the meantime.
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