Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 294 pages)
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illustrations, map, facsimiles
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0748651861
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0748620117
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0748627103
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1282136313
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9780748651863
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9780748620111
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9780748627103
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9781282136311
Inhalt:
This companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary -historical analysis. Far from the usual forced march through the decades, genres and national literatures, this reference work for the new century cuts across familiar categories, focusing instead on literary 'hot spots': Freud's Vienna and Conrad's Congo in 1899, Chicago and London in 1912, the Somme in July 1916, Dublin, London and Harlem in 1922, and so on, down to Bradford and Berlin in 1989 (the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the new digital media), Stockholm in 1993 (Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize) and September 1
Inhalt:
Introduction: on or about December 1910, London / Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson -- 1899, Vienna and the Congo: the art of darkness / Vassiliki Kolocotroni -- 1912, London, Chicago, Florence, New York: modernist moments, feminist mappings / Linda A. Kinnahan -- 1916, Flanders, London, Dublin: 'Everything has gone well' / Randall Stevenson -- 1922, Paris, New York, London: the modernist as international hero / Michael North -- 1925, London, New York, Paris: metropolitan modernisms--parallax and palimpsest / Jane Goldman -- 1928, London: a strange interlude / Chris Baldick -- 1936, Madrid: the heart of the world / Cary Nelson -- 1941, London under the blitz: culture as counter-history / Tyrus Miller -- 1944, Melbourne and Adelaide: the Ern Malley hoax / Philip Mead -- 1955, Disneyland: 'the happiest place on earth' and the fiction of cold war culture / Alan Nadel -- 1956, Suez and Sloane Square: empire's ebb and flow / Rick Rylance -- 1960, Lagos and Nairobi: 'things fall apart' and 'the empire writes back' / Patrick Williams -- 1961, Jerusalem: Eichmann and the aesthetic of complicity / R. Clifton Spargo -- 1963, London: the myth of the artist and the woman writer / Patricia Waugh -- 1967, Liverpool, London, San Francisco, Vietnam: 'we hope you will enjoy the show' / John Hellmann -- 1970, planet earth: the imagination of the global / Ursula K. Heise -- 1979, Edinburgh and Glasgow: devolution deferred / Cairns Craig -- 1989, Berlin and Bradford: out of the cold, into the fire / Andrew Teverson -- 11 February 1990, South Africa: Apartheid and after / Louise Bethlehem -- 1991, the web: network fictions / Joseph Tabbi -- 1993, Stockholm: a prize for Toni Morrison / Abdulrazak Gurnah -- Coda: 11 September 2001, New York: two Y2Ks / Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780748620111
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century literatures in English Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2006
Sprache:
Englisch
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Mehr zum Autor:
McHale, Brian 1952-
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