Описание: Examining the notion of migration and transnationalism within the life and work of Joseph Conrad, this book situates the multicultural and transnational characters that comprise his fiction while locating Conrad as a subject of the Russian state whose provenance is Polish, but whose identity is that of a merchant sailor and English country gentleman. Conrad’s characters are often marked by crossings – changes of nation, changes of culture, changes of identity – which refract Conrad’s own cultural transitions. These crossings not only subjectivise the experience of the migrant through the modern complexities of technology and speed, but also through cross-cultural encounters of food and language.
Collectively, these essays explore the experience of the migrant as exile; the inescapable intermeshing of migration, modernity and transnationalism as well as Conrad’s own global and multicultural outlook. Conrad’s work writes across historical, political and ethnic borders speaking to a transnational reality that continues to have relevance today.
Автор: Underhill Karen Название: Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity ISBN: 0253057272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253057273 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 10032.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) was a Polish writer and artist who murdered by the Nazis even as papers and plans for his escape had been prepared. In Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity, Karen Underhill opens up the Jewish world of Eastern Europe to understand the cultural and political context of Schulz's work, but also the multi-lingual (Yiddish, Polish, and Hebrew) worlds that resonated through it.
Underhill discovered a 1937 article by Schulz that was made available through a digitization project of interwar periodicals in Ukraine. In it, Schulz openly presents his views on the contemporary political, cultural, and spiritual concerns of his Jewish generation in Poland and Eastern Europe. Using this article as a lens, Underhill returns to Schulz's literary texts with fresh eyes and reads them as direct expressions of his engagement with the Jewish questions of his day. The result is a unique textual encounter that opens a range of entry points into the complex Jewish world of Habsburg Galicia. Underhill shows Schulz as a confirmed modernist and affirmed diasporist even when this world was collapsing around him.
Автор: Snyder Robert Lance Название: Eric Ambler`s Novels: Critiquing Modernity ISBN: 1793614180 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781793614186 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 17952.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Bridging what is often perceived as a divide between the thriller and literary fiction, Eric Ambler`s eighteen novels undertake a wide-ranging critique of modernity. Among the twentieth-century developments he examines are totalitarianism, corporatism, espionage, social Darwinism, terrorism, political autocracy, and foreign intervention.
Автор: MacDonald Kate, Waddell Nathan Название: John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity ISBN: 1138662216 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138662216 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Considered a quintessentially `popular` author, John Buchan was a writer of fiction, journalism, philosophy and Scottish history. By examining his engagement with empire, psychoanalysis and propaganda, the contributors to this volume place Buchan at the centre of the debate between popular culture and the modernist elite.
Описание: This book explores the complex relationship between British modernism and the Gothic tradition over several centuries of modern literary and cultural history.
This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing on the literary works of the 1943 Bengal Famine, the 1967-72 Naxalbari Movement, and the 1975-77 Indian Emergency, it shows that there is a long-term, colonially-engineered agrarian crisis enabling these catastrophic events. Novelists such as Bhabani Bhattacharya, Mahasweta Devi, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Nabarun Bhattacharya, and Nayantara Sahgal, among others, have captured the relationship between the long-term crisis and the catastrophic aspects of the events through different aesthetic modalities within realism, ranging from analytical-affective, critical realist, quest modes to apparently non-realist ones such as metafictional, urban fantastic, magical realist, and others. These realist modalities are together read here as postcolonial catastrophic realism.
Описание: This book situates the single woman within the evolving landscape of modernity, examining how she negotiated rural and urban worlds, explored domestic and bohemian roles, and traversed public and private spheres.
Literature and Modern Time is a collection of essays that explore literature in the context of a wave of challenges to linear conceptions of time introduced by thinkers such as Bergson, Einstein, McTaggart, Freud and Nietzsche. These challenges were not uniform in character. The volume will demonstrate that literature of the era under scrutiny was not simply reacting to new theories of time--in some cases it is actually inspiring and anticipating them. Thus Literature and Modern Time promises to offer a genuine dialogue between literature and time theory and in doing so will uncover and examine influences and connections-- sometimes unexpected--between philosophers and writers of the era. It will examine literary attempts to transcend and escape time and also challenge rupture-based accounts of modernist time by demonstrating that literary texts commonly associated with brokenness, decline or stasis, also, at the same time, maintain faith in healing, renewal and mobility.
This collection contains interdisciplinary research of the quite highest kind - to see so many different kinds of time - narrative, historical, mechanical, subjective, non-linear time, myth and nostalgia - as well as time/space discussed here is very stimulating indeed. Professor Simon James
Описание: Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, major Anglophone authors have flocked to a literary form once considered lowbrow `genre fiction`: the post-apocalyptic novel.
Автор: Andrew Gibson Название: Modernity and the Political Fix ISBN: 1350212547 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350212541 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 5226.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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From their decisive emergence in the late eighteenth century, modernity and modern politics were long haunted by irony and paradox. Ours, however, is the age of the implosion of modernity. Modernity has degenerated into self-parody. The polarities that an ironic grasp of it could potentially always hold in tension are finally collapsing into each other.
In Modernity and the Political Fix, Andrew Gibson tells the relevant story and asks what aspects of modern politics we might want to salvage and preserve and within what structure we might continue thinking about them. His answer is that these questions call for the isolation of a particular set of concepts; that, rightly positioned in relation to one another, the concepts amount to a political theology; that the very formulation of political temporality is therefore at stake; and that the thinking in question has been and is best represented in modern philosophy and art, above all, modern literature. Ranging through early modern and modern thought from Hobbes, Pascal and Leibniz to Rousseau, Kant, Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard to Foucault, Lacan, Badiou, Jambet and Ranciиre, and in modern literature and art from Wordsworth and Byron to Goya and Wagner, Huysmans and Wilde, Joyce and Woolf, Joseph Roth, Vicki Baum, Gabriele Tergit and the Weimar novel, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell to R.S. Thomas and Norman Nicholson, Gibson seeks to compile a modern political aide-memoire, a treasury for a politics to come.
Описание: The first English-language study devoted to Hoelderlin`s novel in three decades, this book reveals Hyperion`s literary and philosophical richness and its complex ties with politics, choreography, and economics.
Описание: This book aims to develop a broader view of the trajectory of Hispanic modernity, tracing a motif of recurring impasse, first seen in peninsular Baroque texts and continuing into Latin American colonial and modern literature.
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