Conceptualising the Global in the Wake of the Postmodern
Title | Conceptualising the Global in the Wake of the Postmodern PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Evans |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2019-03-28 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1108497012 |
Identifies a return to figurations of the totality in contemporary literature, theory and culture.
Globalization and Literary Studies
Title | Globalization and Literary Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Evans |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 629 |
Release | 2022-04-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108899676 |
This book provides a history of the way in which literature not only reflects, but actively shapes processes of globalization and our notions of global phenomena. It takes in a broad sweep of history, from antiquity, through to the era of imperialism and on to the present day. Whilst its primary focus is our own historical conjuncture, it looks at how earlier periods have shaped this by tracking key concepts that are imbricated with the concept of globalization, from translation, to empire, to pandemics and environmental collapse. Drawing on these older themes and concerns, it then traces the germ of the relation between global phenomena and literary studies into the 20th and 21st centuries, exploring key issues and frames of study such as contemporary slavery, the digital, world literature and the Anthropocene.
World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time
Title | World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time PDF eBook |
Author | Filippo Menozzi |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2020-06-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030416984 |
Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia. Through critical work and literary reading, this research explores the times other than the present that seem to haunt an era of capitalist globalisation: nostalgic feelings about bygone ideals of identity and community, appeals to Golden Ages, returns of the repressed and anxious anticipations of global extinction and catastrophe. The term non-synchronism explored in this book captures these dislocations of the present, while offering a critical lens to grasp the politics of time of an era marked by the continuing expansion of capitalist modernity. Most importantly, non-synchronism is a dialectical paradigm charged with antagonistic political valences. The literary analysis presented in the volume hence connects the literary manipulation of time to discourses on extinction, accumulation, nostalgia, modernity and survival in global politics and literature.
The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization
Title | The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Cleary |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2021-11-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108988148 |
This study of contemporary Irish expatriate fiction offers a boldly original world-facing rather than nation-focused overview of the contemporary Irish novel. Chapters examine how Irish narrative deals with the United States in a time of declining global hegemony, a rising China and Asia, a thwarted and turbulent Global South, and a European Union that has decisively reshaped Ireland in the last half century. The author argues that in a late capitalist world defined by volatile economic and cultural globalizations, the Irish novel is struggling to imagine new ways to narrate the country's relationship to the world capitalist system and to find new place for Irish writing in the world literary system. Looking at a rapidly-changing Ireland in a rapidly-changing international order, Joe Cleary offers new readings of novels by Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright, Joseph O'Neill, Deirdre Madden, Mary Costello, Naoise Dolan, Aidan Higgins, Colum McCann, Ronan Sheehan and Ronan Bennett.
The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction
Title | The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | David Sergeant |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2022-12-31 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1009279882 |
Explores contemporary fiction set in the near future to shed new light on our culture's relationship to the Anthropocene.
Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry
Title | Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Antony Rowland |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2021-10-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 110884197X |
Introduction -- Contemporary British Poetry and Enigmaticalness -- Continuing 'Poetry Wars' in Twenty-First-Century British Poetry -- Committed and Autonomous Art -- Iconoclasm and Enigmatical Commitment -- The Double Consciousness of Modernism -- Conclusion.
Book, Text, Medium
Title | Book, Text, Medium PDF eBook |
Author | Garrett Stewart |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2021-01-28 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1108834590 |
This study cuts across book arts and literary stylistics in a revisionary theory of language as medium in textual action.