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Modernism, Empire, World Literature (Hardcover)
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Modernism, Empire, World Literature (Hardcover)
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After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers
boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris and
London. Responding to literary renaissances and social upheavals in
their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated Europe,
emigre and domestic-based writers produced dazzling new works that
challenged London's or Paris's authority to fix and determine
literary value. In so doing, they propounded new conceptions of
aesthetic accomplishment that were later codified as 'modernism'.
However, after World War II, an assertive American literary
establishment repurposed literary modernism to boost the cultural
prestige of the United States in the Cold War and to contest Soviet
conceptions of 'world literature'. Here, in accomplished readings
of major works and essays by Henry James, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats,
T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill and
Derek Walcott, Joe Cleary situates Anglophone modernism in terms of
the rise and fall of European and American empires, changing world
literary systems, and disputed histories of 'world literature'.
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