Novel and the Globalization of Culture

Name: Novel and the Globalization of Culture
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ISBN: 9780195089516

ISBN-10: 0195089510

ISBN-13: 9780195089516

Edition: 1995

Authors: Michael Valdez Moses

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Bringing together canonical European authors with authors from the Third World, this book analyzes the emergence of the modern global novel, and the way it mirrors the underlying process of cultural globalization. Through detailed readings of Stendhal, Hardy, Conrad, Achebe, and Vargas Llosa, this study reveals how the spread of Western modernity--materially and culturally--has been shadowed by the destruction of traditional societies. These novels focus on the individual tragedies of those who represent pre-modern ways of life; in the process, offering a corrective to Hegel's abstruse philosophy of history. From rural Victorian England to the Malay Archipelago, and from the Igbo heartland…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/25/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.71" wide x 9.50" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 0.880



Introduction: Hegel, Stendhal, and Posthistorical Existence



The Center Cannot Hold



Hardy: The Archaeology of a Vanishing Life



Conrad: The Flight from Modernity



The Widening Gyre



Achebe: Beasts of No Nation



Vargas Llosa: Apocalyptic History and the Liberal Perspective


Epilogue


Notes


Editions Cited


Index