Claudel, Paul

Ideographic modernism: China, writing, media

by Bush, Christopher

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"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 West…

Ideographic modernism: China, writing, media

by Bush, Christopher

0 Type: Book

"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 West…

This dissertation examines the relationship between Symbolism and Orientalism in the works of Rimbaud, Claudel, and Artaud, and in the Symbolist and Surrealist movements linking these authors aesthetically and historically. Along with its generally accepted literary-historical m…