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Modernism, imperialism, and the historical sense / Paul Stasi.

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"Modernist art and literature sought to engage with the ideas of different cultures without eradicating the differences between them. In Modernism, Imperialism and the Historical Sense, Paul Stasi explores the relationship between high modernist aesthetic forms and structures of empire in the t...

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Main Author: Stasi, Paul, 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
Imperialism in literature.
Eliot, T. S. > (Thomas Stearns), > 1888-1965 > Criticism and interpretation.
Pound, Ezra, > 1885-1972 > Criticism and interpretation.
Joyce, James, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation.
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: imperial structures of feeling
  • 1. The persistence of the past: modernism vs. imperial time
  • 2. The Waste Land and the unreal center of capitalist modernity
  • 3. Cosmopolitan kulchur: The Cantos as world literature
  • 4. Turning production into consumption: Ulysses and the construction of postcolonial agency
  • 5. 'Moments of pride in England': Virginia Woolf and the forms of national subjectivity
  • Coda: the Edwardian lumber room; Notes.

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