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Author:
Majumdar, Saikat.
Title:
Prose of the world : modernism and the banality of empire / Saikat Majumdar.
Publisher:
Columbia University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2013
Description:
232 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN:
0231527675 (e-book)
9780231527675 (e-book)
0231156944 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231156943 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)786273589
LCCN:
2012014234
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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