The cosmic time of empire [[electronic resource] ] : modern Britain and world literature / / Adam Barrows |
Autore | Barrows Adam |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.80933 |
Collana | Flash points |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Modernism (Literature) - English-speaking countries Time in literature Time - Political aspects Time - Systems and standards |
Soggetto non controllato |
1884
adventure novels backward arrow bram stoker cosmopolitan clock empire geopolitics globe greenwich h rider haggard high modernism human temporality imperialism india indian literature james joyce joseph conrad literary criticism modern literature modernism modernist modernity nature of time negri politics prime meridian rudyard kipling science semiotics theory south asian novels standard time temporality time victorian culture victorian literature virginia woolf world standard time |
ISBN |
1-283-27744-1
9786613277442 0-520-94815-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Standard Time, Greenwich, and the Cosmopolitan Clock -- Chapter 2. "Turning From the Shadows That Follow Us" -- Chapter 3. At the Limits of Imperial Time; or, Dracula Must Die! -- Chapter 4. "The Shortcomings of Timetables" -- Chapter 5. "A Few Hours Wrong" -- Conclusion. A Postmodern Politics of Time? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785411203321 |
Barrows Adam | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Flesh and fish blood : postcolonialism, translation, and the vernacular / / S. Shankar |
Autore | Shankar Subramanian <1962-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (205 pages) |
Disciplina | 891/.1 |
Collana | Flashpoints |
Soggetto topico |
Indic literature - Translations - History and criticism
Indic literature - 20th century - History and criticism Postcolonialism in motion pictures - India Postmodernism (Literature) - India |
Soggetto non controllato |
asian culture
asian literacy criticism book club books books about cultural analysis books about different cultures books about literature and film books for history lovers cosmopolitanism cultural spaces culture lovers discussion books easy to read english feminism hindi historical humanism indian literature leisure reads postcolonial studies postmodernism literacy criticism realistic south asian culture tamil dalit tamil vacation reads vernacular analysis vernacular studies |
ISBN |
1-280-76997-1
9786613680747 0-520-95234-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Midnight's Orphans, or the Postcolonial and the Vernacular -- 2. Lovers and Renouncers, or Caste and the Vernacular -- 3. Pariahs, or the Human and the Vernacular -- 4. The "Problem" of Translation -- Conclusion: Postcolonialism and Comparatism -- Note -- Works Cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790303003321 |
Shankar Subramanian <1962-> | ||
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Literary cultures in history : reconstructions from South Asia / / editor, Sheldon Pollock |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1104 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 891.4 |
Altri autori (Persone) | PollockSheldon I |
Soggetto topico |
Indic literature - History and criticism
Literature and society - South Asia - History Politics and literature - South Asia - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
aesthetics
bengal classics colonialism gujarati hemacandra hindi literature independence indian literature indic indigenous culture iran kannada literary criticism literature and culture literature nonfiction pali performance persia persian literature philosophy precolonial hindustan premodern kerala psychology religion sanskrit literature sindhi sinhala south asia south asian culture tamil tibetan literature urdu literature world literature |
ISBN |
0-520-92673-0
9786612356759 1-282-35675-5 1-59734-718-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Globalizing literary cultures -- pt. 2. Literature in southern locales -- pt. 3. The centrality of borderlands -- pt. 4. Buddhist cultures and South Asian literatures -- pt. 5. The twinned histories of Urdu and Hindi. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784405003321 |
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Literary cultures in history : reconstructions from South Asia / / editor, Sheldon Pollock |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1104 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 891.4 |
Altri autori (Persone) | PollockSheldon I |
Soggetto topico |
Indic literature - History and criticism
Literature and society - South Asia - History Politics and literature - South Asia - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
aesthetics
bengal classics colonialism gujarati hemacandra hindi literature independence indian literature indic indigenous culture iran kannada literary criticism literature and culture literature nonfiction pali performance persia persian literature philosophy precolonial hindustan premodern kerala psychology religion sanskrit literature sindhi sinhala south asia south asian culture tamil tibetan literature urdu literature world literature |
ISBN |
0-520-92673-0
9786612356759 1-282-35675-5 1-59734-718-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Globalizing literary cultures -- pt. 2. Literature in southern locales -- pt. 3. The centrality of borderlands -- pt. 4. Buddhist cultures and South Asian literatures -- pt. 5. The twinned histories of Urdu and Hindi. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811340203321 |
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Six acres and a third : the classic nineteenth-century novel about colonial India / / Fakir Mohan Senapati; translated from Oriya by Rabi Shankar Mishra [et al.] |
Autore | Senapati Fakir Mohan <1843-1918.> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : ; Los Angeles : , : University of California Press, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 pages) |
Disciplina |
813.6
891.45634 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MishraRabi Shankar |
Soggetto topico | Indo-Iranian literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th century
academic classic novel classical literature colonial india colonial colonialism contemporary literature crime economics global literature greed indian literature international law and order legal issues literary history literature modern literature property punishment scholarly social class social status theft translation wealth world literature |
ISBN |
1-282-35950-9
1-59875-807-1 0-520-93585-3 9786612359507 1-4237-3133-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Six Acres and a Third -- GLOSSARY |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777562103321 |
Senapati Fakir Mohan <1843-1918.> | ||
Berkeley : ; Los Angeles : , : University of California Press, , 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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