Research Catalog

Title

Prose of the world [electronic resource] : modernism and the banality of empire / Saikat Majumdar.

Author

Majumdar, Saikat

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, c2013.

Details

Description

1 online resource (232 p.)

Uniform Title

Prose of the world (Online)

Alternative Title

Prose of the world (Online)

Subject

• Commonwealth fiction (English) > 20th century > History and criticism
• Banality (Philosophy) in literature
• Place (Philosophy) in literature
• Narration (Rhetoric)
• Literature and society > Commonwealth countries > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-220) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Introduction: poetics of the prosaic -- James Joyce and the banality of refusal -- Katherine Mansfield and the fragility of Pakeha boredom -- The dailiness of trauma and liberation in Zoe Wicomb -- Amit Chaudhuri and the materiality of the mundane -- Epilogue: The uneventful.

LCCN

2012014234

OCLC

ssj0000820801

Author

Majumdar, Saikat.

Title

Prose of the world [electronic resource] : modernism and the banality of empire / Saikat Majumdar.

Imprint

New York : Columbia University Press, c2013.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-220) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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