The Idea of a Colony : Cross-culturalism in Modern Poetry /

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"In The Idea of a Colony, Edward Marx provides a comprehensive approach to the question of cross-culturalism in modern poetry. He situates the work of canonical British and American modernist poets - Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Brooke, Kipling, and Flecker - in dialogue with the work of non-Western,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marx, Edward
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Primitivism in literature.
Exoticism in literature.
English poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Poesie anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Diversite culturelle dans la litterature.
Exotisme dans la litterature.
Primitivisme dans la litterature.
Poesie du Commonwealth (anglaise) > 20e siecle > Themes, motifs.
Poesie du Commonwealth (anglaise) > 19e siecle > Themes, motifs.
Poesie anglaise > 20e siecle > Themes, motifs.
Poesie anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Commonwealth poetry (English) > 20th century > Themes, motives.
Commonwealth poetry (English) > 19th century > Themes, motives.
English poetry > 20th century > Themes, motives.
English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
English poetry > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The spell of far Arabia: James Elroy Flecker's Islamic Near East
  • The ends of the earth: Rudyard Kipling's Afghanistan
  • The exotic transgressions of 'Laurence Hope'
  • Everybody's anima: Sarojini Naidu as nightingale and nationalist
  • The Tagore era
  • The childhood that never was: Rupert Brooke's primitive paradise
  • The infant Gargantua on the wet, black bough: Ezra Pound's Chinese object relations
  • The red man in the drawing room: T.S. Eliot and the nativists
  • The last nostalgia: Wallace Stevens in the shadow of the other
  • Forgotten jungle songs: ambivalent primitivisms of the Harlem Renaissance.

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