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Devolving English Literature
Engelsk
Bogcover for Devolving English Literature af Robert Crawford, 9780748614295
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
352
ISBN-13:
9780748614295
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
2
ISBN-10:
074861429X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 aug 2000
Størrelse i cm:
22,3 x 14,6 x 2,3
Oplagsdato:
15 aug 2000
Forfatter(e):

Devolving English Literature

Engelsk
Paperback 2000
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This widely-praised book looks at the rise and fall of ''Britishness'' in literature over the last three centuries. Arguing that for much of its history the subject of ''English Literature'' has been bound up with an assumed English cultural centre, Devolving English Literature examines the literary construction and questioning of a British (rather than simply English) literary identity. Surveying eighteenth and nineteenth-century writers, including Robert Burns, James Boswell, Walter Scott and Thomas Carlyle, Robert Crawford remaps literary history. He argues that Scottish and non-metropolitan authors left a crucial legacy to American literature, to the developing subject of anthropology, and to twentieth-century Modernism. In the work of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Hugh MacDiarmid and other Modernists there persist vitally ''provincial'' as well as national elements. These continue to nourish the verse of sophisticated post-British ''barbarian'' poets such as Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison, D
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
352
ISBN-13:
9780748614295
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
2
ISBN-10:
074861429X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 aug 2000
Størrelse i cm:
22,3 x 14,6 x 2,3
Oplagsdato:
15 aug 2000
Forfatter(e):
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