The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century literatures in English / edited by Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson.

An imaginatively constructed new literary history of the twentieth century. This 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 centur...

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Other Authors: McHale, Brian (Editor), Stevenson, Randall (Editor)
Other title:Twentieth-century literatures in English.
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Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2006.
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505 0 |a Introduction: on or about December 1910, London / Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson -- 1899, Vienna and the Congo: the art of darkness / Vassiliki Kolocotroni -- 1912, London, Chicago, Florence, New York: modernist moments, feminist mappings / Linda A. Kinnahan -- 1916, Flanders, London, Dublin: 'Everything has gone well' / Randall Stevenson -- 1922, Paris, New York, London: the modernist as international hero / Michael North -- 1925, London, New York, Paris: metropolitan modernisms--parallax and palimpsest / Jane Goldman -- 1928, London: a strange interlude / Chris Baldick -- 1936, Madrid: the heart of the world / Cary Nelson -- 1941, London under the blitz: culture as counter-history / Tyrus Miller -- 1944, Melbourne and Adelaide: the Ern Malley hoax / Philip Mead -- 1955, Disneyland: 'the happiest place on earth' and the fiction of cold war culture / Alan Nadel -- 1956, Suez and Sloane Square: empire's ebb and flow / Rick Rylance -- 1960, Lagos and Nairobi: 'things fall apart' and 'the empire writes back' / Patrick Williams -- 1961, Jerusalem: Eichmann and the aesthetic of complicity / R. Clifton Spargo -- 1963, London: the myth of the artist and the woman writer / Patricia Waugh -- 1967, Liverpool, London, San Francisco, Vietnam: 'we hope you will enjoy the show' / John Hellmann -- 1970, planet earth: the imagination of the global / Ursula K. Heise -- 1979, Edinburgh and Glasgow: devolution deferred / Cairns Craig -- 1989, Berlin and Bradford: out of the cold, into the fire / Andrew Teverson -- 11 February 1990, South Africa: Apartheid and after / Louise Bethlehem -- 1991, the web: network fictions / Joseph Tabbi -- 1993, Stockholm: a prize for Toni Morrison / Abdulrazak Gurnah -- Coda: 11 September 2001, New York: two Y2Ks / Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson. 
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