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Informationen zum Autor Brian McHale is Distinguished Humanities Professor in English at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Postmodernist Fiction (1987), Constructing Postmodernism (1992), and The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems (2004), named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2004. For many years affiliated with the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics at Tel Aviv University, he was an editor of the journal Poetics Today from 1979 to 2004. Randall Stevenson is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Born in the north of Scotland, grew up in Glasgow and studied in the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. Lectured on modern literature in 15 countries in Europe and in Nigeria, South Korea and Egypt. General Editor of the Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain series. Zusammenfassung This companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary-historical analysis. It cuts across familiar categories! focusing instead on literary events and texts which consitute 'landmarks' across the century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: On or about December 1910, London: Introduction; Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson; Section I. The First Moderns; Chapter One. 1899, Vienna and the Congo: The Art of Darkness; Vassiliki Kolocotroni; Chapter Two. 1912, London, Chicago, Florence and New York: Modernist Moments, Feminist Mappings; Linda Kinnahan; Chapter Three. 1916, Flanders, London and Dublin: 'Everything Has Gone Well'; Randall Stevenson; Chapter Four. 1922, Paris, New York, London: The Modernist as International Hero.; Michael North; Section II. Between the Wars; Chapter Five. 1925, London, New York, Paris: Metropolitan Modernisms - Parallax and Palimpsest; Jane Goldman; Chapter Six. 1928, London: A Strange Interlude; Chris Baldick; Chapter Seven: 1936, Madrid: The Heart of the World; Cary Nelson; Chapter Eight. 1941, London Under the Blitz: Culture as Counter-History; Tyrus Miller; Section III. Cold War and Empire's Ebb; Chapter Nine. 1944, Melbourne and Adelaide: The Ern Malley Hoax; Philip Mead; Chapter Ten. May, 1955, Disneyland: 'The Happiest Place on Earth' and the Fiction of Cold War Culture; Alan Nadel; Chapter Eleven. 1956, Suez and Sloane Square: Empire's Ebb and Flow; Rick Rylance; Chapter Twelve. 1960, Lagos and Nairobi: 'Things Fall Apart' and 'The Empire Writes Back'; Patrick Williams; Chapter Thirteen. 1961, Jerusalem: Eichmann and the Ethic of Complicity; R. Clifton Spargo; Chapter Fourteen. 1963, London: The Myth of the Artist and the Woman Writer; Patricia Waugh; Section IV. Millennium Approaches; Chapter Fifteen. 1967, Liverpool, London, San Francisco and Vietnam: 'We Hope You Will Enjoy the Show'; John Hellmann; Chapter Sixteen. 1973, Planet Earth: The Imagination of the Global; Ursula K. Heise; Chapter Seventeen. 1979, Edinburgh and Glasgow: Devolution Deferred; Cairns Craig; Chapter Eighteen. 1989, Berlin and Bradford: Out of the Cold, Into the Fire; Andrew Teverson; Chapter Nineteen. February 11th 1990, South Africa: Apartheid and After; Louise Bethlehem; Chapter Twenty. 1991, The Web: Network Fictions; Joseph Tabbi; Chapter Twenty-One. 1993, Stockholm: A Prize for Toni Morrison; Abdulrazak Gurnah; Coda: September 11, 2001, New York: Two Y2K's; Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson; Notes on Contributors; Index.List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: On or about December 1910, London: Introduction; Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson; Section I. The First Moderns; Chapter One. 1899, Vienna and the Congo: The Art of Darkness; Vassiliki Kolocotroni; Chapter Two. 1912, London, Chicago, Florence and New York: Modernist Moments, Feminist Mappings; Linda Kinnahan; Chapter Three. 1916, Flanders, London and Dublin: 'Everything Has Gone Well'; Randall Stevenson; Chapter Four. 1922, Paris, New Y...
