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The Novel and the Globalization of Culture

By: Michael Valdez Moses

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The Novel and the Globalization of Culture

By: Michael Valdez Moses

Bringing together canonical European authors with authors from the Third World, this book analyzes the emergence of the modern global novel, and the way it mirrors the underlying process of cultural globalization. Through detailed readings of Stendhal, Hardy, Conrad, Achebe, and Vargas Llosa, this study reveals how the spread of Western modernity--materially and culturally--has been shadowed by the destruction of traditional societies. These novels focus on the individual tragedies of those who represent pre-modern ways of life; in the process, offering a corrective to Hegel's abstruse philosophy of history. From rural Victorian England to the Malay Archipelago, and from the Igbo heartland in Africa to the backlands of Brazil, a global narrative unfolds, one where the forces of modernization clash with the defenders of traditional society. Moses contributes to the ongoing debate on Alexandre Kojève and the "end of history", while, at the same time, moving beyond sterile oppositions--canonical versus non-canonical works, formal literary criticism versus political/historical critique. With its new conceptualization of modernity and globalization, this book will interest the literary scholar, cultural critic, social scientist, and political theorist.

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Oxford University Press

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0195358287

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Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism

Anglophone Literature, 1950 to the Present

By: Richard Begam,Michael Valdez Moses

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Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism

Anglophone Literature, 1950 to the Present

By: Richard Begam,Michael Valdez Moses

Africa -- Asia -- The Caribbean -- Ireland -- Australia/New Zealand -- Canada

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0199980969

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Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975

By: Guarneri Michael Guarneri

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Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975

By: Guarneri Michael Guarneri

Positioning itself at the intersection of Italian film history, horror studies and cultural studies, this fascinating book asks why, and how, was the protean, transnational and transmedial figure of the vampire appropriated by Italian cinema practitioners between 1956 and 1975? The book outlines both the 1945-85 industrial context of Italian cinema and the political, economic and sociocultural context of the Italian Republic, from post-war reconstruction to the austerity of the mid-1970s. Using case studies of films by directors such as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda, it also delves into lesser-known gems of Italian psychotronic cinema from the 1960s and 1970s, like L'amante del vampiro (The Vampire and the Ballerina) and Riti, magie nere e segrete orge nel Trecento . . . (The Reincarnation of Isabel). With original research into hitherto unpublished film production data, censorship data, original screenplays, trade papers, film magazines and vampire-themed paraliterature, the book strongly argues for the cultural legitimacy of Italian film genres like horror, adventure, comedy and erotica, whose study has so far been neglected in favour of the Italian auteur cinema of the 1940s neorealists and their later followers.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474458149

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9781474458146

After Empire

Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie

By: Michael Gorra

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After Empire

Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie

By: Michael Gorra

In After Empire Michael Gorra explores how three novelists of empire—Paul Scott, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie—have charted the perpetually drawn and perpetually blurred boundaries of identity left in the wake of British imperialism. Arguing against a model of cultural identity based on race, Gorra begins with Scott's portrait, in The Raj Quartet, of the character Hari Kumar—a seeming oxymoron, an "English boy with a dark brown skin," whose very existence undercuts the belief in an absolute distinction between England and India. He then turns to the opposed figures of Naipaul and Rushdie, the two great novelists of the Indian diaspora. Whereas Naipaul's long and controversial career maps the "deep disorder" spread by both imperialism and its passing, Rushdie demonstrates that certain consequences of that disorder, such as migrancy and mimicry, have themselves become creative forces. After Empire provides engaging and enlightening readings of postcolonial fiction, showing how imperialism helped shape British national identity—and how, after the end of empire, that identity must now be reconfigured.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226304760

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The Novel and the Globalization of Culture

By: Michael Valdez Moses

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The Novel and the Globalization of Culture

By: Michael Valdez Moses

This text analyzes the emergence of the modern novel and the manner in which it mirrors the underlying process of the globalization of culture. It focuses on Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge", Conrad's "Lord Jim", Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" and Vargas Llosa's "The War at the End of the World".

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0195089529

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Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism

Anglophone Literature, 1950 to the Present

By: Richard Begam,Michael Valdez Moses

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Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism

Anglophone Literature, 1950 to the Present

By: Richard Begam,Michael Valdez Moses

Africa -- Asia -- The Caribbean -- Ireland -- Australia/New Zealand -- Canada

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The Novel and the Globalization of Culture

The Novel and the Globalization of Culture

Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism

Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism

Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975

Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975

After Empire

After Empire

The Novel and the Globalization of Culture

The Novel and the Globalization of Culture

Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism

Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism

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