Václav Paris

The Evolutions of Modernist Epic

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how modernist national narrative successively reimagined the evolutionary epic from the 1910s to the 1930s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780198868217
• ISBN-10: 0198868219
• Artikelnr.: 60142021

Autorenporträt

Václav Paris is an Assistant Professor at the City College of New York, where he teaches courses on Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Global Modernism. His research focuses on the intersections between science and modernist literature around the world. Dr Paris's work has appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, the Journal of Modern Literature, Modernism/modernity, the James Joyce Quarterly, the Arizona Quarterly, and English Literature in Transition. Dr Paris is also a passionate student of languages and a translator. His translation of Zdenek Kratochvíl's The Philosophy of Living Nature, was published by Karolínum in November 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: By the Light of the Eclipse
* 1: Beginning Again with Modernist Epic: Gertrude Stein's The Making
of Americans
* 2: Joyce's Atavism and the New Ireland
* 3: Survival of the Unfittest on the Eastern Front: The Good Soldier
%Svejk
* 4: Comparing Tales of the Tribe: Macunaíma and Orlando
* Afterword: Beyond the Eclipse