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Ideographic modernism
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- Book Synopsis
- Ideographic Modernism offers a critical account of the ideograph (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) as a modernist invention. Through analyses of works by Claudel, Pound, Kafka, Benjamin, Segalen, and Valery, among others, Christopher Bush traces the interweaving of Western modernity's ethnographic and technological imaginaries, in which the cultural effects of technological media assumed "Chinese" forms, even as traditional representations of "the Orient" lived on in modernist-era responses to media. The book also makes a methodological argument, demonstrating new ways of recovering the generally overlooked presence of China in the text of Western modernism.
- About The Author
- Christopher Bush is Associate Professor of French and Program Director of Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780199926602
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, (27 September 2012)
- Number of Pages
- 208
- Weight
- 272 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 213 x 140 x 15.2 mm
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