Ideographic Modernism

China, Writing, Media
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-992660-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Ideographic Modernism offers a critical account of the ideograph (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) as a modernist invention. Through analyses of works by Claudel, Pound, Kafka, Benjamin, Segalen, and Valery, among others, Christopher Bush traces the interweaving of Western modernity's ethnographic and technological imaginaries, in which the cultural effects of technological media assumed "Chinese" forms, even as traditional representations of "the Orient" lived on
in modernist-era responses to media. The book also makes a methodological argument, demonstrating new ways of recovering the generally overlooked presence of China in the text of Western modernism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bush, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Bush is Associate Professor of French and Program Director of Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University.