This book will engage readers in Irish, American and Caribbean literatures, especially those interested in world literature, empire and postcolonial studies. Offers bold new readings by Henry James, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill and Derek Walcott in context of the rise of the United States to world power.
This book will engage readers in Irish, American and Caribbean literatures, especially those interested in world literature, empire and postcolonial studies. Offers bold new readings by Henry James, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill and Derek Walcott in context of the rise of the United States to world power.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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.
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