Culture, 1922 : the emergence of a concept / Marc Manganaro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manganaro, Marc, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American fiction.

Criticism--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Criticism--United States--History--20th century.

Cultural relations in literature.

Culture in literature.

Culture--Philosophy.

Culture.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English fiction.

Literature and anthropology--History--20th century.

Literature and anthropology.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942--Influence.

Malinowski, Bronislaw.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Culture, 1922 traces the intellectual and institutional deployment of the culture concept in England and America in the first half of the twentieth century. With primary attention to how models of culture are created, elaborated upon, transformed, resisted, and ignored, Marc Manganaro works across disciplinary lines to embrace literary, literary critical, and anthropological writing. Tracing two traditions of thinking about culture, as elite products and pursuits and as common and shared systems of values, Manganaro argues that these modernist formulations are not mutually exclusive and have indeed intermingled in complex and interesting ways throughout the development of literary studies and anthropology. Beginning with the important Victorian architects of culture--Matthew Arnold and Edward Tylor--the book follows a number of main figures, schools, and movements up to 1950 such as anthropologist Franz Boas, his disciples Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Zora Neale Hurston, literary modernists T. S. Eliot and James Joyce, functional anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, modernist literary critic I. A. Richards, the New Critics, and Kenneth Burke. The main focus here, however, is upon three works published in 1922, the watershed year of Modernism--Eliot's The Waste Land, Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific, and Joyce's Ulysses. Manganaro reads these masterworks and the history of their reception as efforts toward defining culture. This is a wide-ranging and ambitious study about an ambiguous and complex concept as it moves within and between disciplines.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION Culture, Anthropology, and the "Literary" Modern

CHAPTER 1. Making Up for Lost Ground: Eliot's Cultural Geographics

CHAPTER 2. Malinowski: Writing, Culture, Function, Kula

CHAPTER 3. Malinowski, "Native" Narration, and "The Ethnographer's Magic"

CHAPTER 4. Joyce and His Critics: Notes toward the Definition of Culture

CHAPTER 5. Joyce's Wholes: Culture, Tales, and Tellings

CHAPTER 6. Patterns of Culture: Ruth Benedict and the New Critics

CHAPTER 7. Hurston, Burke, and the New Critics: Narrative, Context, and Magic

AFTERWORD. Culture's Pasts, Presents, and Futures

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612087622

9781282087620

1282087622

9781400825226

1400825229

OCLC:

355680066