What Is a Classic? - Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon

Zusatztext "What is a classic? Taking her lead from Augustin Sainte-Beuve, T. S. Eliot, and J. M. Coetzee, Ankhi Mukherjee offers an eloquent case for the question's continuing relevance to literature, literary criticism, and, above all, to the language arts of the postcolony. [This book] brings fresh energy to the longstanding study of imperial cultural authority, attending to both the ideological imposition of that authority and the split literary consciousness of postcolonial writing produced in its wake." Informationen zum Autor Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of Wadham College. She is the author of Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (2007). Klappentext Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of Wadham College. She is the author of Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (2007). Zusammenfassung Examines the residual influence of the Eurocentric literary canon in the age of postcolonial and world literature and looks at emergent formations of canons and classics at large.

Product details

• Authors: Mukherjee Ankhi, Ankhi Mukherjee
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2014
• EAN: 9780804795258
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-9525-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies