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Cosmopolitan style : modernism beyond the nation / Rebecca L. Walkowitz.
Van Pelt Library PR888.M63 W35 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walkowitz, Rebecca L., 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Cosmopolitanism.
- Great Britain.
- Cosmopolitanism--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 231 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- This groundbreaking new work links the novels of modernist, contemporary, and postcolonial authors such as Conrad, Woolf, and Rushdie to rethink the political nature of cosmopolitanism and modernism.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Critical Cosmopolitanism and Modernist Narrative 1
- Part 1 Cosmopolitan Modernism 33
- 1 Conrad's Naturalness 35
- 2 Joyce's Triviality 55
- 3 Woolf's Evasion 79
- Part 2 Modernist Cosmopolitanism 107
- 4 Ishiguro's Treason 109
- 5 Rushdie's Mix-Up 131
- 6 Sebald's Vertigo 153.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-220) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231137508
- 0231510535
- OCLC:
- 62161334
- Publisher Number:
- 9780231137508
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