Parry / Lowe Interventions into Modernist Cultures

Poetry from Beyond the Empty Screen
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8986-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Reihe: Perverse Modernities

A comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in Taiwan and the United States, as well as in immigrant Asian American writing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parry, Amie Elizabeth

Lowe, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction / Canonical Modernisms, Minor Modernisms, and the Cultural Politics of Fragmentation 1

1 / The Historicity of the Fragment: Toward a Critical Comparativism 21

2 / “Completely Painted Over but Painted Full of Empty Spaces”: Stein’s American Allegories and the End of Progress 44

3 / “Learning a Lesson in the Superficial Song Lyrics”: Hsia Yü’s “Underground” Poetry 80

4 / “For the Other Overlapping Time”: Pound’s Ideogramic Universalism and Cha’s Countermodernist Translation 113

Conclusion / The Cultural Uses of an Interventionary Poetics 148

Notes 153

Works Cited 171

Index 181

Über Autor(innen)

Amie Elizabeth Parry is Associate Professor of English at the National Central University in Taiwan.