Seo Hee Im

Bio

Seo Hee Im is assistant professor of English at Hanyang University. Her book manuscript claims that mid-twentieth-century novels absorbed practical empirical structures in order to make sense of a world beyond the nation. She is currently working on a set of articles on contemporary feminism and Marxism.

Contributions

Philip K. Dick, Late Modernism, and the Chinese Logic of American Totality

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Given the tradition that the Analects contain nothing superfluous, I was puzzled by the verses re length of the night-gown and the predilection for ginger. . . . Those passages of the Analects are, as I see it, there to insist that Confucius was a Chinaman, not born of a dragon, not in any way supernatural, but remarkably possessed of good sense. —Ezra Pound, The Confucian Analects [I]s the surest way to a fructive western idea the misunderstanding of an eastern one? —Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era...

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global modernism cosmopolitanism late modernism