The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English:

An imaginatively constructed new literary history of the twentieth centuryThis companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary-historical analysis. Far from the usual forced march through the decades, genres and national literatures, this reference work for the new century c...

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1. Verfasser: McHale, Brian 1952- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
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Zusammenfassung:An imaginatively constructed new literary history of the twentieth centuryThis companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary-historical analysis. Far from the usual forced march through the decades, genres and national literatures, this reference work for the new century cuts across familiar categories, focusing instead on literary 'hot spots': Freud's Vienna and Conrad's Congo in 1899, Chicago and London in 1912, the Somme in July 1916, Dublin, London and Harlem in 1922, and so on, down to Bradford and Berlin in 1989 (the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the new digital media), Stockholm in 1993 (Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize) and September 11, 2001.The Companion:reanimates twentieth-century literary historygives unique insight into the literary imagination via the focus on pivotal times and placesprovides an unprecedented view of literatures in English in global contexts from Berlin to Bradford, Florence to Flanders, Lagos to Liverpool, Madrid to Melbourne, and San Francisco to Stockholmoffers illuminating analyses of authors and texts from across the centurybrings together expert contributors from around the world
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (304 pages)
ISBN:9780748627103
DOI:10.1515/9780748627103

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