Modernism in a global context / Peter J. Kalliney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalliney, Peter J., 1971- author.

Series:

New modernisms series.

New modernisms series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2016.

Language Note:

English

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 the Little Magazine 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 Woolf, 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 annotated guide to further reading and online resources."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

1. An Aesthetics of Motion

2. Imperialism

3. Cosmopolitanism

4. Cultural Institutions

5. Media

6. Conclusion

7. Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472569639

1472569636

9781474219631

1474219632

9781472569660

1472569660

OCLC:

925332993