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Author : Joe Cleary
Release : 2021-06-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 355/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modernism, Empire, World Literature by : Joe Cleary
Download or read book Modernism, Empire, World Literature written by Joe Cleary. This book was released on 2021-06-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a bold new argument about how Irish, American and Caribbean modernisms helped remake the twentieth-century world literary system.
Author : Howard J. Booth
Release : 2000-06-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 078/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modernism and Empire by : Howard J. Booth
Download or read book Modernism and Empire written by Howard J. Booth. This book was released on 2000-06-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore the fascinating relationship between literary Modernism and Empire. The book seeks to begin the task of exploring, in a sustained way, the relations between the artistic movement and colonialism. The essays range over subjects and figures such as Ireland, Africa, Joyce, Pound, Townsend Warner, Lawrence and Forster, Kipling, Woolf, and Jean Rhys.
Author : Paul Stasi
Release : 2012-07-30
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 448/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modernism, Imperialism and the Historical Sense by : Paul Stasi
Download or read book Modernism, Imperialism and the Historical Sense written by Paul Stasi. This book was released on 2012-07-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a re-reading of canonical modernism, connecting it to imperialism without conflating it with imperialist practices.
Author : Adam Barrows
Release : 2011
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 996/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cosmic Time of Empire by : Adam Barrows
Download or read book The Cosmic Time of Empire written by Adam Barrows. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable moment in modernism for both the processes of imperialism and for modern literature. As representatives from twenty-four nations argued over adopting the Prime Meridian, and thereby measuring time in relation to Greenwich, England, writers began experimenting with new ways of representing human temporality. Barrows finds this experimentation in works as varied as Victorian adventure novels, high modernist texts, and South Asian novels—including the work of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, H. Rider Haggard, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad. Demonstrating the investment of modernist writing in the problems of geopolitics and in the public discourse of time, Barrows argues that it is possible, and productive, to rethink the politics of modernism through the politics of time.
Author : Saikat Majumdar
Release : 2013-01-08
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 675/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Prose of the World by : Saikat Majumdar
Download or read book Prose of the World written by Saikat Majumdar. This book was released on 2013-01-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday life in the far outposts of empire can be static, empty of the excitement of progress. A pervading sense of banality and boredom are, therefore, common elements of the daily experience for people living on the colonial periphery. Saikat Majumdar suggests that this impoverished affective experience of colonial modernity significantly shapes the innovative aesthetics of modernist fiction. Prose of the World explores the global life of this narrative aesthetic, from late-colonial modernism to the present day, focusing on a writer each from Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and India. Ranging from James Joyce's deflated epiphanies to Amit Chaudhuri's disavowal of the grand spectacle of postcolonial national allegories, Majumdar foregrounds the banal as a key instinct of modern and contemporary fiction—one that nevertheless remains submerged because of its antithetical relation to literature's intuitive function to engage or excite. Majumdar asks us to rethink the assumption that banality merely indicates an aesthetic failure. If narrative is traditionally enabled by the tremor, velocity, and excitement of the event, the historical and affective lack implied by the banal produces a narrative force that is radically new precisely because it suspends the conventional impulses of narration.
