Modernism, Empire, World Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-49235-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 610 g

After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers remade the literary world system dominated by Paris and London. Responding to literary 'renaissances' and social upheavals in their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated Europe, émigré and domestic-based modernists produced new works that challenged London's or Paris's authority to determine literary value. These later codified as 'Modernism'. However, after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment repurposed the literature that had once challenged English and French literary authority to boost the cultural prestige of the United States in the cold war and to contest Soviet conceptions of 'world literature'. Here, in strong readings of 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 and disputed histories of 'world literature'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cleary, Joe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. 'A Language That Was English': Peripheral Modernisms and the Remaking of the Republic of Letters in the Age of Empire; 2. 'It Uccedes Lundun': Logics of Literary Decline and 'Renaissance' from Tocqueville and Arnold to Yeats and Pound; 3. 'The Insolence of Empire': The Fall of the House of Europe and Emerging American Ascendancy in The Golden Bowl and The Waste Land; 4. Contesting Wills: Joyce, Yeats, Goethe, Shakespeare and Mimetic Rivalries in Ulysses; 5. 'That Huge Incoherent Failure of a House': Antinomies of American Ascendancy in The Great Gatsby and Long Day's Journey into Night; 6. 'Cities that open like The World's Classics': Omeros and Epic Impasse in the Neoliberal World Literary System.

Über Autor(innen)

Cleary, Joe
Joe Cleary is Professor of English at Yale University. His earlier books include Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine (2001) and Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland (2007). He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism (2014) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (2005).