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Author: Christopher GoGwilt (Professor of English, Professor of English, Fordham University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.40cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 15.60cm
Weight: 0.540kg
ISBN: 9780199330133
ISBN 10: 0199330131
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 10 October 2013
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
GoGwilt's practice of postcolonial philology offers modernist studies a rich theoretical approach through which to intimately connect, rather than merely multiply, transnational modernist movements. More importantly, he demonstrates how such readings can do ample justice to the historical and material interrelations of these modernisms. * Modern Fiction Studies * A brilliant comparative study of the interrelated genealogies of English, Creole, and Indonesian modernisms...GoGwilt reinvigorates postcolonial studies by returning it to close textual analysis. His valuable book will surely generate much research. Highly recommended. * Choice * This is an illuminating comparative study of different genealogies of the modernist novel across continents and periods in the twentieth and early twenty-first century. The book's chapters on Pramoedya Ananta Toer's fascinating body of work add a genuinely non-Anglophone transnational dimension to the study of literary modernism, particularly in their provocative call for a theoretically informed postcolonial philology. * Pheng Cheah, author of Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation * Reading three diverse modernisms-English, Creole, and Indonesian-in close conversation with one another, Christopher GoGwilt confronts the limits of predominantly Anglophone approaches to modernism. In the process, he redefines key concepts in postcolonial and modernist studies, productively extends recent debates concerning world literature, and offers a model for reconfiguring temporal and geographical relationships in global modernist studies. * Mary Lou Emery, author of Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature * The Passage of Literature broadens our understanding of literary modernism, literary antecedents, and often-overlooked connections. In exploring the ''passage'' of literature, the work also offers a reading of history, even as it reminds us of how the literary and linguistic enterprises are intimately connected with contending histories, politics, and genealogies. In so doing, GoGwilt's study offers fresh insights into the historical, literary, and linguistic understandings of modernism(s) and of modernity. * Veronica M. Gregg, Modern Philology *
The Passage of Literature broadens our understanding of literary modernism, literary antecedents, and often-overlooked connections. In exploring the passage of literature, the work also offers a reading of history, even as it reminds us of how the literary and linguistic enterprises are intimately connected with contending histories, politics, and genealogies. In so doing, GoGwilt's study offers fresh insights into the historical, literary, and linguistic understandings of modernism(s) and of modernity. Veronica M. Gregg, Modern Philology Reading three diverse modernisms-English, Creole, and Indonesian-in close conversation with one another, Christopher GoGwilt confronts the limits of predominantly Anglophone approaches to modernism. In the process, he redefines key concepts in postcolonial and modernist studies, productively extends recent debates concerning world literature, and offers a model for reconfiguring temporal and geographical relationships in global modernist studies. Mary Lou Emery, author of Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature This is an illuminating comparative study of different genealogies of the modernist novel across continents and periods in the twentieth and early twenty-first century. The book's chapters on Pramoedya Ananta Toer's fascinating body of work add a genuinely non-Anglophone transnational dimension to the study of literary modernism, particularly in their provocative call for a theoretically informed postcolonial philology. Pheng Cheah, author of Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation A brilliant comparative study of the interrelated genealogies of English, Creole, and Indonesian modernisms...GoGwilt reinvigorates postcolonial studies by returning it to close textual analysis. His valuable book will surely generate much research. Highly recommended. Choice GoGwilt's practice of postcolonial philology offers modernist studies a rich theoretical approach through which to intimately connect, rather than merely multiply, transnational modernist movements. More importantly, he demonstrates how such readings can do ample justice to the historical and material interrelations of these modernisms. Modern Fiction Studies
The Passage of Literature broadens our understanding of literary modernism, literary antecedents, and often-overlooked connections. In exploring the ''passage'' of literature, the work also offers a reading of history, even as it reminds us of how the literary and linguistic enterprises are intimately connected with contending histories, politics, and genealogies. In so doing, GoGwilt's study offers fresh insights into the historical, literary, and linguistic understandings of modernism(s) and of modernity. --Veronica M. Gregg, Modern Philology Reading three diverse modernisms-English, Creole, and Indonesian-in close conversation with one another, Christopher GoGwilt confronts the limits of predominantly Anglophone approaches to modernism. In the process, he redefines key concepts in postcolonial and modernist studies, productively extends recent debates concerning world literature, and offers a model for reconfiguring temporal and geographical relationships in global modernist studies. --Mary Lou Emery, author of Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature This is an illuminating comparative study of different genealogies of the modernist novel across continents and periods in the twentieth and early twenty-first century. The book's chapters on Pramoedya Ananta Toer's fascinating body of work add a genuinely non-Anglophone transnational dimension to the study of literary modernism, particularly in their provocative call for a theoretically informed postcolonial philology. --Pheng Cheah, author of Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation [A] brilliant comparative study of the interrelated genealogies of English, Creole, and Indonesian modernisms...GoGwilt reinvigorates postcolonial studies by returning it to close textual analysis. His valuable book will surely generate much research. Highly recommended. --Choice GoGwilt's practice of postcolonial philology offers modernist studies a rich theoretical approach through which to intimately connect, rather than merely multiply, transnational modernist movements. More importantly, he demonstrates how such readings can do ample justice to the historical and material interrelations of these modernisms. --Modern Fiction Studies Valuable for its many boundary-pushing endeavors and for the points of philological connection it raises between rarely compared writers. --NOVEL
Author Information
Christopher GoGwilt is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. He is the author of The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire and The Fiction of Geopolitics: Afterimages of Culture from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock.
