Globalisation and its Discontents by Tony Sharpe
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 Val ry 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 HOLDERNES, BRYAN LOUGHREY, JENIFER BIRKET, PHYLIS LASNER, SHARON OUDIT, TONY SHARPE, EDWARD LARISY, MICHAEL MURPHY, LIAM CONEL-
English: Shared Futures
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Victorian Women Poets
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British Literature and Print Culture
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Literature and Science
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Textual Distortion
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War and Literature
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Literature and Ageing
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Translating Literature
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Romanticism and Gender
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Feminist Linguistics in Literary Criticism
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The Gothic
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Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition
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Literature and Institutions of Welfare
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The Literature of Hell
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The Literature and Politics of the Environment
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The The Waste Land after One Hundred Years
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Postcolonial Theory and Criticism
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Slow Scholarship
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Contemporary British Women Writers
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Writing China
Stan Smith had a long pedigree of teaching both art students and amateur artists. He was part-time lecturer at the Royal College of Art and for almost a decade was Head of Fine Art at the University of Oxford. He exhibited regularly in the UK, and was the author of many books on painting and drawing including The Complete Drawing Course.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781843840756 |
| ISBN 10 | 1843840758 |
| Title | Globalisation and its Discontents |
| Author | Tony Sharpe |
| Series | Essays And Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | D.S.Brewer |
| Year published | 2006-07-20 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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