What is a classic? : postcolonial rewriting and invention of the canon /

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This work revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T.S. Eliot to J.M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in 20th and 21st century English and Anglophone literature, Mukherjee demonstrates the relevance...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mukherjee, Ankhi
Otros Autores: Vries, Hent de
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
Colección:Cultural memory in the present.
Temas:
1900-2099
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Canon (Literature)
Criticism.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature)
Critique.
literary criticism.
criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
English literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "What is a classic?" : international literary criticism and the classic question
  • What is a novel? : Conrad, Said, Naipaul
  • "Best of the world's classics" : Derek Walcott between classics and the classic
  • "Pip was my story" : rereading, counterreading, and nonreading
  • "Yes, sir, I was the one who got away" : postcolonial emergence and the vernacular canon
  • Hamarashakespeare.com : Shakespeare in India
  • Postscript : the why of the what.

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