Modernism, empire, world literature
(Book)
Author
Published
Cambridge, UK Cambridge, United Kingdom ; Cambridge University Press, 2021.
ISBN
9781108492355, 1108492355, 9781108729277, 1108729274
Physical Desc
ix, 318 pages ; 25 cm
Status
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Framingham State - Main | PN771 .C46 2021 | On Shelf |
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Published
Cambridge, UK Cambridge, United Kingdom ; Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9781108492355, 1108492355, 9781108729277, 1108729274
UPC
40030709517
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-307) and index (pages 308-318).
Description
After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris and London. Responding to literary renaissances and social upheavals in their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated Europe, émigré and domestic-based writers produced dazzling new works that challenged London's or Paris's authority to fix and determine literary value. In so doing, they propounded new conceptions of aesthetic accomplishment that were later codified as 'modernism'. However, after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment repurposed literary modernism to boost the cultural prestige of the United States in the Cold War and to contest Soviet conceptions of 'world literature'. Here, in accomplished readings of major works and essays by Henry James, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill and Derek Walcott, Joe Cleary situates Anglophone modernism in terms of the rise and fall of European and American empires, changing world literary systems, and disputed histories of 'world literature'--Publisher's description.
Subjects
LC Subjects
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland.
Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland.
Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Cleary, J. (2021). Modernism, empire, world literature . Cambridge University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Cleary, Joe. 2021. Modernism, Empire, World Literature. Cambridge University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Cleary, Joe. Modernism, Empire, World Literature Cambridge University Press, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Cleary, Joe. Modernism, Empire, World Literature Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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