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American modernism's expatriate scene : the labour of translation / Daniel Katz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Katz, Daniel.
- Series:
- Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.
- Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Expatriation in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 197 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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).
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-192) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-5200-0
- 1-281-25191-7
- 9786611251918
- 0-7486-3087-2
- OCLC:
- 476144694
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