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Experiments With China in American Modernity.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Experiments With China in American Modernity./
Author:	Lester, Jason.
Description:	1 online resource (224 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-02A.
Subject:	American literature. -
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ISBN:	9798379958114

Experiments With China in American Modernity.
Lester, Jason.

Experiments With China in American Modernity. - 1 online resource (224 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Experiments with China in American Modernity explores formulations of China within America's early and interwar modernist period. I propose the concept of "transpacific experimentalism" to identify an emergent, sustained aesthetic engagement with China, grounded in empiricist, scientistic, or otherwise humanist claims, which can be understood through John Dewey's theory of creative imagination. This dissertation resonates with the continuing expansion of new modernist studies, offering new methodological approaches and archival challenges to a field which has been historically constricted to a narrow high modernist canon. By tracing a constellation of texts situated on the disciplinary interstices of modernist studies, Chinese area studies, and Asian American studies, I do not intend to further horizontally expand the category of American modernism, but to reveal the extent to which it has always already been historically, culturally, and aesthetically transpacific-a term which, following Hua Hsu, "describes a physical space" connecting the United States to Asia, "as well as a horizon of possibility." From the transpacific birth and circuits of Harriet Monroe's Poetry magazine and Ezra Pound's living Chinese character, to Witter Bynner's collaboration with Jiang Kanghu and the recovery of Sino-US poets and scholars of American modernism, this dissertation argues for a new mode of reading which unearths the horizontal aesthetic relations which emerged across American and Chinese modernity.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379958114Subjects--Topical Terms:

685398
American literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Aesthetic theoryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

Experiments With China in American Modernity.
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