{"product_id":"9781472569653","title":"Modernism in a Global Context","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eModernism in a Global Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Peter Kalliney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the 'global turn' in contemporary Modernist Studies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Topics covered include: \u003cbr\u003e  - Transnational exchanges between Western and non-Western literary cultures \u003cbr\u003e  - Imperialism and the Modernism\u003cbr\u003e  - Cosmopolitanism and postcolonial literatures \u003cbr\u003e  - Global literary institutions - from the Little Magazine to the Nobel Prize \u003cbr\u003e  - Mass media - photography, cinema, and radio broadcasting in the modernist age \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Exploring the work of writers such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie and critics such as Edward Said, Pascale Casanova, Paul Gilroy, and Gayatri Spivak amongst many others, the book also includes a comprehensive annotated guide to further reading and online resources.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A book that manages very helpfully and deftly to merge postcolonial theory with theories of global and\u003cbr\u003etransnational literature.” \u003ci\u003e—Twentieth-Century Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book, and the series as a whole, is useful for both beginning students and advanced scholars of modernism. It approaches its topic through the critical theories of modernism, grounding it in academia, and provides an extended bibliography of the major critical works. The broad rather than deep approach makes \u003ci\u003eModernism in a Global Context\u003c\/i\u003e an excellent beginner’s guide to the movement.” – \u003ci\u003eJournal of Modern Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Engagingly written and keenly aware of the enormity of its topic, Kalliney’s book maintains an enviable blend of scholarly rigor and accessible introduction, making it one of the most ideal teaching tools in a series devoted to that audience … Kalliney proceeds to move through a provocative range of examples of how one might conceive of modernism as a global phenomenon while remaining attentive to textual specificity.” – \u003ci\u003eModernism\/modernity\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781472569653\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40596041171150,"sku":"9781472569653","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_5c327721-36e9-498d-9728-031cf086a2bf.jpg?v=1637848024","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781472569653","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}