Modernism And Empire
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Modernism And Empire
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Author : Howard J. Booth
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2000-06-10
Modernism And Empire written by Howard J. Booth and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-10 with History categories.
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.
Modernism Empire World Literature
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Author : Joe Cleary
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-17
Modernism Empire World Literature written by Joe Cleary and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-17 with History categories.
Offers a bold new argument about how Irish, American and Caribbean modernisms helped remake the twentieth-century world literary system.
Modernism And The Post Colonial
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Author : Peter Childs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Modernism And The Post Colonial written by Peter Childs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Colonies in literature categories.
This book considers the shifts in aesthetic representation over the period 1885-1930 that coincide both with the rise of literary Modernism and imperialism's high point. If it is no coincidence that the rise of the novel accompanied the expansion of empire in the eighteenth-century, then the historical conditions of fiction as the empire waned are equally pertinent. Peter Childs argues that modernist literary writing should be read in terms of its response and relationship to events overseas and that it should be seen as moving towards an emergent post-colonialism instead of struggling with a.
The Modernist Novel And The Decline Of Empire
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Author : John Marx
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-12-08
The Modernist Novel And The Decline Of Empire written by John Marx and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the early twentieth century, subjects of the British Empire ceased to rely on a model of centre and periphery in imagining their world and came instead to view it as an interconnected network of cosmopolitan people and places. English language and literature were promoted as essential components of a commercial, cultural, and linguistic network that spanned the globe. John Marx argues that the early twentieth century was a key moment in the emergence of modern globalization, rather than simply a period of British imperial decline. Modernist fiction was actively engaged in this transformation of society on an international scale. The very stylistic abstraction that seemed to remove modernism from social reality, in fact internationalized the English language. Rather than mapping the decline of Empire, modernist novelists such as Conrad and Woolf celebrated the shared culture of the English language as more important than the waning imperial structures of Britain.
Incomparable Empires
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Author : Gayle Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2016-11-01
Incomparable Empires written by Gayle Rogers and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended and began its cultural domination of the globe in the twentieth century, while the once-mighty Spanish empire declined and became a minor state in the world republic of letters. But what if this narrative relies on several faulty assumptions, and what if key modernist figures in both America and Spain radically rewrote these histories at a foundational moment of modern literary studies? Following networks of American and Spanish writers, translators, and movements, Gayle Rogers uncovers the arguments that forged the politics and aesthetics of modernism. He revisits the role of empire—from its institutions to its cognitive effects—in shaping a nation's literature and culture. Ranging from universities to comparative practices, from Ezra Pound's failed ambitions as a Hispanist to Juan Ramón Jiménez's multilingual maps of modernismo, Rogers illuminates modernists' profound engagements with the formative dynamics of exceptionalist American and Spanish literary studies. He reads the provocative, often counterintuitive arguments of John Dos Passos, who held that "American literature" could only flourish if the expanding U.S. empire collapsed like Spain's did. And he also details both a controversial theorization of a Harlem–Havana–Madrid nexus for black modernist writing and Ernest Hemingway's unorthodox development of a version of cubist Spanglish in For Whom the Bell Tolls. Bringing together revisionary literary historiography and rich textual analyses, Rogers offers a striking account of why foreign literatures mattered so much to two dramatically changing countries at a pivotal moment in history.
Architecture S Evil Empire
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Author : Miles Glendinning
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2010-10-15
Architecture S Evil Empire written by Miles Glendinning and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-15 with Architecture categories.
From Chicago to Toronto to Shanghai, cities around the world have sprouted “iconic” buildings by celebrity architects like Frank Gehry and Daniel Libeskind that compete for attention both on the skyline and in the media. But in recent years, criticism of these extreme “gestural” structures, known for their often-exaggerated forms, has been growing. Miles Glendinning’s impassioned polemic, Architecture’s Evil Empire, looks at how today’s trademark architectural individualism stretches beyond the well-known works and ultimately extends to the entire built environment. Glendinning examines how the global empire of the current modernism emerged—particularly in relation to the excesses of global capitalism—and explains its key organizational and architectural features, placing its most influential theorists and designers in a broader context of history and artistic movements. Arguing against the excesses of iconic architecture, Glendinning advocates a vision of modern renewal that seeks to remedy the shattered and alienated look he sees in contemporary architecture. Mingling scholarship with wry humor and a genuine concern for the state of architecture, Architecture’s Evil Empire will raise many heated debates and appeal to a wide range of readers, from architects to historians, interested in the built environment.
Architectur S Evil Empire
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Author : Miles Glendinning
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Architectur S Evil Empire written by Miles Glendinning and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Architecture, Modern categories.
Nationalism Colonialism And Literature
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Author : Fredric Jameson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Nationalism Colonialism And Literature written by Fredric Jameson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
Fiction Crime And Empire
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Author : Jon Thompson
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1993
Fiction Crime And Empire written by Jon Thompson and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Crime in literature categories.
Reading fiction from high and low culture together, Fiction, Crime, and Empire skillfully sheds light on how crime fiction responded to the British and American experiences of empire, and how forms such as the detective novel, spy thrillers, and conspiracy fiction articulate powerful cultural responses to imperialism. Poe's Dupin stories, for example, are seen as embodying a highly critical vision of the social forces that were then transforming the United States into a modern, democratic industrialized nation; a century later, Le Carré employs the conventions of espionage fiction to critique the exhausted and morally compromised values of British imperialism. By exploring these works through the organizing figure of crime during and after the age of high imperialism, Thompson challenges and modifies commonplace definitions of modernism, postmodernism, and popular or mass culture.
Prose Of The World
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Author : Saikat Majumdar
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-08
Prose Of The World written by Saikat Majumdar and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.