Phyllis Lassner Globalisation and its Discontents (Hardback) Essays and Studies

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Globalisation and its DiscontentsCondition: NewEAN: 9781843840756ISBN: 9781843840756Publisher: D.S. BrewerFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/20/2006Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 138mmContributor: Stan Smith (Edited by), Phyllis Lassner (Contributions by), Jennifer Birkett (Contributions by), Tony Sharpe (Contributions by), Liam Connell (Contributions by), Edward Larrissy (Contributions by), Sharon Ouditt (Contributions by), Graham Holderness (Contributions by), Michael Murphy (Contributions by), Stan Smith (Contributions by), Bryan Loughrey (Contributions by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: Writing the Global CultureISBN-10: 1843840758Description: 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 CONNELLCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Essays and StudiesTopic: Society & CultureAuthor: Phyllis LassnerRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Globalisation and its Discontents

Title: Globalisation and its Discontents

EAN: 9781843840756

ISBN: 9781843840756

Release Date: 07/20/2006

Release Year: 2006

Contributor: Bryan Loughrey (Contributions by)

Subtitle: Writing the Global Culture

ISBN-10: 1843840758

Country/Region of Manufacture: GB

Genre: Literary Criticism

Topic: Society & Culture

Number of Pages: 224 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Globalisation and Its Discontents : Writing the Global Culture

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited

Publication Year: 2006

Subject: Globalization, American / General

Item Height: 0.9 in

Item Weight: 13.1 Oz

Type: Textbook

Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science

Item Length: 8.7 in

Author: Graham Holderness

Item Width: 5.7 in

Series: Essays and Studies

Format: Hardcover