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Author:   Sabine Sielke ,  Sabine Sielke ,  Christian Klöckner
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   4
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9783631576083

ISBN 10:   3631576080
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   23 March 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents: Christian Kloeckner/Sabine Sielke: From «Drops - of India» to «Floors / Descending»: Orient and Orientalisms in US-American Poetry and Poetics. Introduction – Herwig Friedl: Emerson, Persian Poetry, and Sheikh Mosleho’d-Din Sa’di-ye Shirazi: The Hermeneutics of Hospitality – Liam Corley: «The Veil I Would Not Tear Away’: Rapprochement and Retreat in Bayard Taylor’s Poems of the Orient – Christa Buschendorf: Melville’s Clarel - Irreconcilable Contradictions, or: A Pilgrimage to Piranesi’s Carceri – Ranen Omer-Sherman: «The Orient Sun Gleams from the Eye»: Emma Lazarus’s Lyrics and the Tropes of Orientalism – Zhaoming Qian: Against Anti-Confucianism: Ezra Pound’s Encounter/Collision with a Chinese Modernist – R. John Williams: Modernist Scandals: Ezra Pound’s Translations of ‘the’ Chinese Poem – Simone Knewitz: Poetics of an Enclosed Garden: The Orient in Amy Lowell’s Pictures of the Floating World – Devin Zuber: «Poking Around in the Dust of Asia»: Wallace Stevens, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of the East – Frank Kearful: Robert Lowell and New England Orientalism: China Trade Rubble, an Open Porthole, and Irregular Japanese Touches – Anna Hartnell: Re-Drawing the East/West Boundary: Orientalizing Jewish Identity in Allen Ginsberg’s «Kaddish» – David Caplan: Forms of Exile: The Example of the Ghazal – Hannes Bergthaller: Orientalism and Millennarian Dialectics in Walt Whitman’s «Passage to India» and Gary Snyder’s Earth House Hold – Kornelia Freitag: «Holding the Pencil Like One Lonely Chopstick», or: Re-Writing the Gaze – Roger Sedarat: Veiling Hyphenated Identities: Iranian-American Poets’ Appropriation of Orientalism – Mihaela Moscaliuc: «Unbecoming, a desperate homesickness / even at home»: Kimiko Hahn and the Poetics of Exhumation.

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The Editors: Sabine Sielke is Chair of North American Literature and Culture and Director of the North American Studies Program, the German-Canadian Centre, and the Forum Women and Gender Studies at the University of Bonn. Christian Kloeckner is Assistant Professor of North American Literature and Culture at the University of Bonn.

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