Modernism in a global context / Peter J. Kalliney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalliney, Peter J., 1971- author.

Series:

New modernisms series (Bloomsbury (Firm))

New modernisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

190 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Summary:

Exploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the "global turn" in contemporary Modernist Studies. Topics covered include: Transnational exchanges between Western and non-Western literary cultures; Imperialism and Modernism; Cosmopolitanism and postcolonial literatures; Global literary institutions - from little magazines to the Nobel Prize; Mass media - photography, cinema, and radio broadcasting in the modernist age. Exploring the work of writers such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Wooff, Jean Rhys, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie and critics such as Edward Said, Pascale Casanova, Paul Gilroy, and Gayatri Spivak amongst many others, the book also includes a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on global modernism. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 An aesthetics of motion 1

2 Imperialism 25

3 Cosmopolitanism 59

4 Cultural institutions 89

5 Media 121

6 Conclusion: Modernities at large, or one world system? 157.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-179) and index.

ISBN:

9781472569646

1472569644

9781472569653

1472569652

OCLC:

932594221