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American Modernism's Expatriate Scene

by Daniel Katz

American literature, history and criticism, 19th centuryAmerican literature, history and criticism, 20th centuryModernism (literature)History and criticismAmerican literatureExpatriation in literature

Katz investigates American modernism as a space of generalized interference, with the practice and trope of translation emerging as central to writers such as Henry James, Ezra Pound and Jack Spicer, while the text remains in constant dialogue with key works on transnationalism, transatlanticism, and modernism.

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