Globalisation And Its Discontents - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1843840758 ISBN 13 : 9781843840756

Editeur : D.S. Brewer, 2006

Synopsis

Essays discussing the concept of globalisation as present in works of art and literature.

Like Freud's `civilisation', globalisation is both cause and consequence of its own discontents, visible at times only in the resistances it generates. Study of the phenomenon has until recently been confined largely to economists and political and social scientists. The present volume brings a range of literary and cultural analyses to bear to demonstrate both its actual time-depth and the all-encompassing nature of its influences on culture and consciousness. The English language and English literature have been major elements in its forging, underwriting first British and then American cultural hegemony.

Unlike most readings of globalisation, these essays depict notan irresistible juggernaut but a process that, in generating its own resistances, opens up the possibility of an alternative world order founded not on the inequities of power and capital, but on shared commitment to a fragile planet and a common and universal culture.

Ranging from Homer to Michael Crichton, Shakespeare to Suleyman Al-Bassam, John Donne to Les Murray, John Keats to Derek Walcott, Conrad, Gissing and Edward Lear to V. S. Naipauland Salman Rushdie, and addressing, among many others, writers as diverse as Paul Valéry and Edouard Glissant, Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens, George Orwell, Martha Gellhorn and Storm Jameson, Eliot, Yeats and Auden, Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon, these essays explore a remarkable range of responses to the process of globalisation from earliest times to the present day.

Contributors: STAN SMITH, GRAHAM HOLDERNESS, BRYAN LOUGHREY, JENNIFER BIRKETT, PHYLLIS LASSNER, SHARON OUDITT, TONY SHARPE, EDWARD LARRISSY, MICHAEL MURPHY, LIAM CONNELL

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edward Larrissy is Emeritus Professor of Poetry in the Queen's University of Belfast, where he chairs the Advisory Board of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. His published works include Yeats the Poet: The Measures of Difference (1994), Blake and Modern Literature (2006), and The Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period (2007). He has also edited, among other things, W.B. Yeats: Visions and Revisions (2010), and The First Yeats: Poems by W.B. Yeats 1889-1899 (2010).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: D.S. Brewer
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843840758
• ISBN 13: 9781843840756
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Smith Stan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible