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The underlying concerns of these narratives, Adams discovers, are often less political or literary than metaphysical: in each of these fictions a major character dies as a result of the journey, inviting reflection on the negation of existence. Repeatedly, imaginative encounters with distant, uncanny colonies produce familiar, insular presentations of life as an odyssey, with death as the home port. Expanding postcolonial and Marxist theories by drawing on the philosophy of Hans Blumenberg, Adams finds in this preoccupation with mortality a symptom of the failure of secular culture to give meaning to death. This concern, in his view, shapes the ways modernist narratives reinforce or critique imperial culture - the authors project onto British imperial experience their anxieties about the individual's relation to the absolute.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Plný název: Colonial Odysseys
• Podnázev: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel
• Autor: David Adams
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 272
• EAN: 9780801488863
• ISBN: 0801488869
• ID: 04708023
• Nakladatelství: Cornell University Press
• Hmotnost: 376 g
• Rozměry: 151 × 226 × 19 mm
• Datum vydání: 25. November 2003

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