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American Modernism's Expatriate Scene
Daniel Katz
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Description for American Modernism's Expatriate Scene
Paperback. Beginning with the late work of Henry James, this book goes on to examine at length Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, to conclude with the uncanny regionalism of mid-century San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer, and the deterritorialised aesthetic of Spicer's peer, John Ashbery. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 328.
This is a study on the premise that expatriation in American modernism is less a flight from the homeland than a dialectical return to it. Beginning with the late work of Henry James, this book goes on to examine at length Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, to conclude with the uncanny regionalism of mid-century San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer, and the deterritorialised aesthetic of Spicer's peer, John Ashbery. Through an emphasis on modernism as a space of generalised interference, the practice and trope of translation emerges as central to all of the writers concerned, while the book remains in ... Read more
This is a study on the premise that expatriation in American modernism is less a flight from the homeland than a dialectical return to it. Beginning with the late work of Henry James, this book goes on to examine at length Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, to conclude with the uncanny regionalism of mid-century San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer, and the deterritorialised aesthetic of Spicer's peer, John Ashbery. Through an emphasis on modernism as a space of generalised interference, the practice and trope of translation emerges as central to all of the writers concerned, while the book remains in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures
Condition
New
Weight
328g
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748691210
SKU
V9780748691210
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About Daniel Katz
Daniel Katz is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.
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