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The blossom which we are : the novel and the transience of cultural worlds / Nir Evron.
Record details
- ISBN: 1438480695
- ISBN: 9781438480695
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 223 pages)
- Publisher: Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Culturalism, Historicism, Realism -- Overview -- Chapter 1 Culturalism, Vulnerability, and Transience -- A Shared Vulnerability -- Culturalist Genealogies -- Cultural Extinction: From Periphery to Center -- Maria Edgeworth and the Birth of the Novel of Peripheral Decline -- Walter Scott: Historicizing the Decline-on-the-Periphery Motif -- Realist and Regionalist Trajectories -- Chapter 2 An Ironist's Elegy: Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence -- Postwar -- Between Wharton and Archer -- The Realist Cul-de-Sac "After a while nothing matters" or Wharton's Temporalization of Value -- Wharton and Archer Revisited -- Chapter 3 "Und siehe da: Es gab also fremde Länder!": Joseph Roth's Parochializing of Empire -- "Translating the Stranger": The Ethnoliterary Roth -- Empire as Cultural World: The Radetzky March -- The "Abysmal, Worthless, Stupid, Steely Law" of Culture -- Alien Children -- The All-Too-Human Emperor Franz Joseph -- Chapter 4 The Culturalization of Zionism: Yaakov Shabtai's Past Continuous -- A Different Kind of Elite -- "A world with no place to hide": Shabtai's Knowing Narrator On Knowing and Dying: Shabtai's Anti-Philosophicalism -- The Twice-Born Uncle Lazar -- Chapter 5 Culturalism and Historicism in Contemporary Intellectual Life -- Our Tribal Humanities -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed December 3, 2021). |
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| Subject: | Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Literature and society > History > 20th century. Social change in literature. Culture in literature. Fiction > Social aspects. |
| Genre: | Criticism, interpretation, etc. History |
