Colonial Odysseys

Name: Colonial Odysseys
Brand: Cornell University Press
SKU: 9780801488863
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Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel

Autor: David Adams

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The underlying concerns of these narratives, Adams discovers, are often less political or literary t...

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Autor

David Adams

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engleză

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Publicat

2003

Pagini

272

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9780801488863

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0801488869

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04708023

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Cornell University Press

Greutate

376

Dimensiuni

226 x 151 x 19

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The underlying concerns of these narratives, Adams discovers, are often less political or literary than metaphysical: in each of these fictions a major character dies as a result of the journey, inviting reflection on the negation of existence. Repeatedly, imaginative encounters with distant, uncanny colonies produce familiar, insular presentations of life as an odyssey, with death as the home port. Expanding postcolonial and Marxist theories by drawing on the philosophy of Hans Blumenberg, Adams finds in this preoccupation with mortality a symptom of the failure of secular culture to give meaning to death. This concern, in his view, shapes the ways modernist narratives reinforce or critique imperial culture - the authors project onto British imperial experience their anxieties about the individual's relation to the absolute.

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