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    The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English by McHale, Brian; Stevenson, Randall;

    Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Edinburgh University Press
    • Date of Publication 28 June 2006
    • Number of Volumes Print PDF

    • ISBN 9780748620111
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages304 pages
    • Size 244x172 mm
    • Weight 694 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary-historical analysis. It cuts across familiar categories, focusing instead on literary events and texts which consitute 'landmarks' across the century.

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    An imaginatively constructed new literary history of the twentieth century.This companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary -historical analysis. Far from the usual forced march through the decades, genres and national literatures, this reference work for the new century cuts across familiar categories, focusing instead on literary ‘hot spots’: Freud’s Vienna and Conrad’s Congo in 1899, Chicago and London in 1912, the Somme in July 1916, Dublin, London and Harlem in 1922, and so on, down to Bradford and Berlin in 1989 (the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the new digital media), Stockholm in 1993 (Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize) and September 11, 2001.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Illustrations
    Acknowledgements
    Introduction: On or about December 1910, London: Introduction - Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson


    Section I. The First Moderns
    1. 1899, Vienna and the Congo: The Art of Darkness - Vassiliki Kolocotroni
    2. 1912, London, Chicago, Florence and New York: Modernist Moments, Feminist Mappings - Linda Kinnahan
    3. 1916, Flanders, London and Dublin: 'Everything Has Gone Well' - Randall Stevenson
    4. 1922, Paris, New York, London: The Modernist as International Hero - Michael North


    Section II. Between the Wars
    5. 1925, London, New York, Paris: Metropolitan Modernisms - Parallax and Palimpsest - Jane Goldman
    6. 1928, London: A Strange Interlude - Chris Baldick
    7: 1936, Madrid: The Heart of the World - Cary Nelson
    8. 1941, London Under the Blitz: Culture as Counter-History - Tyrus Miller


    Section III. Cold War and Empire's Ebb
    9. 1944, Melbourne and Adelaide: The Ern Malley Hoax - Philip Mead
    10. May, 1955, Disneyland: 'The Happiest Place on Earth' and the Fiction of Cold War Culture - Alan Nadel
    11. 1956, Suez and Sloane Square: Empire's Ebb and Flow - Rick Rylance
    12. 1960, Lagos and Nairobi: 'Things Fall Apart' and 'The Empire Writes Back' - Patrick Williams
    13. 1961, Jerusalem: Eichmann and the Ethic of Complicity - R. Clifton Spargo
    14. 1963, London: The Myth of the Artist and the Woman Writer - Patricia Waugh


    Section IV. Millennium Approaches
    15. 1967, Liverpool, London, San Francisco and Vietnam: 'We Hope You Will Enjoy the Show' - John Hellmann
    16. 1973, Planet Earth: The Imagination of the Global - Ursula K. Heise
    17. 1979, Edinburgh and Glasgow: Devolution Deferred - Cairns Craig
    19. 1989, Berlin and Bradford: Out of the Cold, Into the Fire -Andrew Teverson
    19. February 11th 1990, South Africa: Apartheid and After - Louise Bethlehem
    20. 1991, The Web: Network Fictions - Joseph Tabbi
    21. 1993, Stockholm: A Prize for Toni Morrison - Abdulrazak Gurnah


    Coda: September 11, 2001, New York: Two Y2K's - Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson


    Notes on Contributors
    Index

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