Product Description: Modernism and the Orient is a splendid collection of essays written by a talented group of contributors from both West and East with enlightening approaches to Oscar Wilde, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Marcel Proust, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T...read more

Product Description: No literary figure of the past century - in America or perhaps in any other Western country - is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. To this day, scholars and students still find it puzzling that this influential poet spent a lifetime incorporating Chinese language, literature, history, and philosophy into Anglo-American modernism...read more

Product Description: What role did Chinese art play in the poetic development of Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens? How could they share Chinese artists’ Dao, an aesthetic held to be beyond verbal representation? In this sequel to his critically acclaimed study Orientalism and Modernism, Zhaoming Qian investigates the ways in which these three modernist poets received Chinese artistic notions and assimilated them into their literary masterpieces...read more

Product Description: Chinese culture held a well-known fascination for modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. What is less known but is made fully clear by Zhaoming Qian is the degree to which oriental culture made these poets the modernists they became...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)