Cosmopolitan Fictions

Cosmopolitan Fictions
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : 9781135492366
ISBN-13 : 1135492360
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Cosmopolitan Fictions by : Katherine Stanton

Participating in the reframing of literary studies, Cosmopolitan Fictions identifies, as "cosmopolitan fiction", a genre of global literature that investigates the ethics and politics of complex and multiple belonging. The fictions studied by Katherine Stanton represent and revise the global histories of the past and present, including the "indigenous or native" narratives that are, in Homi Bhabha's words, "internal to" national identity itself. The works take as their subjects: * European unification * the human rights movement * the AIDS epidemic * the new South Africa. And they test the infinite demands for justice against the shifting borders of the nation, rethinking habits of feeling, modes of belonging and practices of citizenship for the global future. Scholars, teachers and students of global literary and cultural studies, Cosmopolitan Fictions is a book to want on your reading list.

Formative Fictions

Formative Fictions
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 215
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ISBN-10 : 9780801465215
ISBN-13 : 0801465214
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Formative Fictions by : Tobias Boes

The Bildungsroman, or "novel of formation," has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In Formative Fictions, Tobias Boes argues that the dual status of the Bildungsroman renders this novelistic form an elegant way to negotiate the diverging critical discourses surrounding national and world literature. Since the late eighteenth century, authors have employed the story of a protagonist's journey into maturity as a powerful tool with which to facilitate the creation of national communities among their readers. Such attempts always stumble over what Boes calls "cosmopolitan remainders," identity claims that resist nationalism's aim for closure in the normative regime of the nation-state. These cosmopolitan remainders are responsible for the curiously hesitant endings of so many novels of formation. In Formative Fictions, Boes presents readings of a number of novels—Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Karl Leberecht Immermann's The Epigones, Gustav Freytag's Debit and Credit, Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus among them—that have always been felt to be particularly "German" and compares them with novels by such authors as George Eliot and James Joyce to show that what seem to be markers of national particularity can productively be read as topics of world literature.

Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community

Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9781139430777
ISBN-13 : 1139430777
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community by : Jessica Berman

In Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community, first published in 2001, Jessica Berman argues that the fiction of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community and cosmopolitanism. Although these modernist writers develop radically different models for social organization, their writings return again and again to issues of commonality, shared voice, and exchange of experience, particularly in relation to dominant discourses of gender and nationality. The writings of James, Proust, Woolf and Stein, she argues, not only inscribe early twentieth-century anxieties about race, ethnicity, nationality and gender, but confront them with demands for modern, cosmopolitan versions of community. This study seeks to revise theories of community and cosmopolitanism in light of their construction in narrative, and in particular it seeks to reveal the ways that modernist fiction can provide meaningful alternative models of community.

Violet America

Violet America
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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 9781609381479
ISBN-13 : 1609381475
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Violet America by : Jason Arthur

Violet America takes on the long habit among literary historians and critics of thinking about large segments of American literary production in terms of regionalism or "local color" writing, thus marginalizing important literary works. Rather than simply celebrating regional difference, Jason Arthur argues, regional cosmopolitan fiction blends the nation's cultural polarities into a connected, interdependent America. Book jacket.

Culture and Economics in Contemporary Cosmopolitan Fiction

Culture and Economics in Contemporary Cosmopolitan Fiction
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9783031449956
ISBN-13 : 3031449959
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Culture and Economics in Contemporary Cosmopolitan Fiction by : Elif Toprak Sakız

This book investigates how culture and economics define novel forms of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan fiction. Tracing cosmopolitanism’s transition from universalism to vernacularism, the book opens up new avenues for reading cosmopolitan fiction by offering a precise and convenient set of terminology. The figure of the cosmoflâneur identifies a contemporary cosmopolitan character’s urban mobility and wandering consciousness in interaction with the global and the local. Posthuman cosmopolitanism also extends the meaning of cosmopolitan which comes to embrace the nonhuman alongside the human element. Defining narrative glocality, political hyper-awareness, and narrative immediacy, the book thoroughly explores how cosmopolitan narration forges direct responses to the contemporary world in postmillennial cosmopolitan novels. All of these concepts are elaborated in Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005), Zadie Smith’s NW (2012), Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House (2017), and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021), to which world-engagement is central.

Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary British Fiction

Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary British Fiction
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9781137030016
ISBN-13 : 1137030011
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary British Fiction by : F. McCulloch

This book is a concise and engaging analysis of contemporary literature viewed through the critical lens of cosmopolitan theory. It covers a wide spectrum of issues including globalisation, cosmopolitanism, nationhood, identity, philosophical nomadism, posthumanism, climate change, devolution and love.

Sociability and Cosmopolitanism

Sociability and Cosmopolitanism
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781317321668
ISBN-13 : 1317321669
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Sociability and Cosmopolitanism by : David Burrow

This collection of essays expands the focus of Enlightenment studies to include countries outside the core nations of France, Germany and Britain. Notions of sociability and cosmopolitanism are explored as ways in which people sought to improve society.

Cosmopolitan Asia

Cosmopolitan Asia
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9781317372158
ISBN-13 : 1317372158
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Cosmopolitan Asia by : Sharmani Patricia Gabriel

One key concept in the large body of scholarship concerned with theorizing social relations is the idea of 'cosmopolitanism'. This book unpacks the idea of cosmopolitanism through the linked knowledges of the Global South. It brings into dialogue an inter-disciplinary team of local and transnational scholars who examine various temporal, cultural, spatial and political contexts in countries as different, yet connected, as Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, India, Bangladesh, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. The book also considers a wide range of subjects – present and historical, real, as represented in literature and in theatre, and as theorized in philosophy – across these diverse contexts, but always focusing on regions and places where inter-Asian intermingling has taken place. The conclusions arrived at are varied and considerably enrich social theorizing. The book reveals a cosmopolitanism that is much more specifically Asian than the cosmopolitanism usually associated with the West, demonstrates how concepts of 'nation', 'local' and 'globalization' play out in practice in Asian settings, and re-examines concepts such as migration, diaspora, and the construction of identities. The book has much to offer scholars engaged in history, literary studies, anthropology and cultural studies.

Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature

Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9780230305908
ISBN-13 : 0230305903
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature by : R. Spencer

Via readings of novels by J.M. Coetzee, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie and the later poetry of W.B. Yeats, this book reveals how postcolonial writing can encourage the enlarged sense of moral and political responsibility needed to supplant ongoing forms of imperial violence with cosmopolitan institutions, relationships and ways of thinking.

Cosmopolitan Style

Cosmopolitan Style
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 0231137516
ISBN-13 : 9780231137515
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Cosmopolitan Style by : Rebecca L. Walkowitz

This is a groundbreaking work which links the novels of modernist, contemporary, and postcolonial authors to rethink the political nature of cosmopolitanism.