Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing [[electronic resource] /] / by Philip Dickinson
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Dickinson Philip
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| Titolo: |
Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing [[electronic resource] /] / by Philip Dickinson
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (206 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 820.900912 |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature |
| Comparative literature | |
| Literature, Modern—20th century | |
| Literature, Modern—21st century | |
| Literature, Modern—18th century | |
| Postcolonial/World Literature | |
| Comparative Literature | |
| Contemporary Literature | |
| Eighteenth-Century Literature | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1. Romanticism and Postcolonial Writing: Living Thoughts, Breathing Worlds -- 2. Walcott, Wordsworth, and the Extinction of Sense -- Countervoice I: George Lamming -- 3. Dis-enclosure: Landscape, Lyric Form, and The Enigma of Arrival -- Countervoice II: Anita Desai -- 4. White Writing and the Regime of the Sensory -- Countervoice III: J. M. Coetzee -- 5. Spivak's Imagination. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically-neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination. From the decolonizing poetics of the Caribbean to the white writing of South Africa, from the aesthetics of post-imperial disappointment to postcolonial theory itself, it develops an account of the textual and philosophical interpenetration of postcolonial aesthetics with Romantic ideas about sense, history and world. What emerges is a reading of Romantic/postcolonial co-involvement that moves beyond well-worn models of intercanonical antagonism and the historicizing biases of conventional literary history. Caught somewhere between the effects of reanimation and estrangement, Romanticism appears here not as a stable textual repository prior to the postcolonial, but as echo, spectre, self-interruption, or vital force, that can yet only emerge in the guise of the afterlife, its agency mediated — but never exhausted — by postcolonial writing. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing |
| ISBN: | 3-319-70341-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910300021003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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