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This book attempts to address the paradoxes inherent in international modernism (a literary movement which at once strove to cross borders of nation, language, and tradition yet which at the same time often endorsed nationalist and racial' models of identity.

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Introduction; Chapter One; Native Well Being: Henry James and the 'Cosmopolite'; Chapter Two; The Mother's Tongue: Seduction, Authenticity, and Interference in The Ambassadors; Chapter Three; Ezra Pound's American Scenes: Henry James and the Labour of Translation; Chapter Four; Pound and Translation: Ideogram and The Vulgar Tongue; Chapter Five; Gertrude Stein, Wyndham Lewis, and the American Language; Chapter Six; Jack Spicer's After Lorca: Translation as Delocalization; Chapter Seven; Homecomings: The Poet's Prose of Ashbery, Schuyler and Spicer; Bibliography.

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/30/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780748691210, 978-0748691210
      ISBN10: 0748691219
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book attempts to address the paradoxes inherent in international modernism (a literary movement which at once strove to cross borders of nation, language, and tradition yet which at the same time often endorsed nationalist and racial' models of identity.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; Chapter One; Native Well Being: Henry James and the 'Cosmopolite'; Chapter Two; The Mother's Tongue: Seduction, Authenticity, and Interference in The Ambassadors; Chapter Three; Ezra Pound's American Scenes: Henry James and the Labour of Translation; Chapter Four; Pound and Translation: Ideogram and The Vulgar Tongue; Chapter Five; Gertrude Stein, Wyndham Lewis, and the American Language; Chapter Six; Jack Spicer's After Lorca: Translation as Delocalization; Chapter Seven; Homecomings: The Poet's Prose of Ashbery, Schuyler and Spicer; Bibliography.

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