The idea of a colony : cross-culturalism in modern poetry /
Marx, Edward.
The idea of a colony : cross-culturalism in modern poetry / Edward Marx. - Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2004. - 1 online resource (viii, 213 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The spell of far Arabia: James Elroy Flecker's Islamic Near East -- The ends of the earth: Rudyard Kipling's Afghanistan -- The exotic transgressions of 'Laurence Hope' -- Everybody's anima: Sarojini Naidu as nightingale and nationalist -- The Tagore era -- The childhood that never was: Rupert Brooke's primitive paradise -- The infant Gargantua on the wet, black bough: Ezra Pound's Chinese object relations -- The red man in the drawing room: T.S. Eliot and the nativists -- The last nostalgia: Wallace Stevens in the shadow of the other -- Forgotten jungle songs: ambivalent primitivisms of the Harlem Renaissance.
"In The Idea of a Colony, Edward Marx provides a comprehensive approach to the question of cross-culturalism in modern poetry. He situates the work of canonical British and American modernist poets - Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Brooke, Kipling, and Flecker - in dialogue with the work of non-Western, colonial, and minority poets - Tagore, Naidu, Violet Nicolson - and brings into the discussion the poets of the Harlem Renaissance." "Drawing on psychological and cultural theory, Marx argues that primitivism and exoticism were the main forms of cross-culturalism in the modern period, and that these forms were organized around repression of the unconscious and irrational. To the psychological scene of the primitive/exotic poem and its reception, which is explored through substantial archival research, Marx brings an array of approaches including the theories of Freud, Jung, Lacan, Said, Foucault, Bhabha, Fanon, and others. The result is a series of powerful new readings of canonical modernists and a welcome expansion of the field of modern poetry into the age of multiculturalism and postcoloniality."--Jacket.
9781442681477 (electronic bk.) 1442681470 (electronic bk.) 1281994596 9781281994592
22573/ctt55mm2 JSTOR
English poetry--History and criticism.
Primitivism in literature.
Exoticism in literature.
English poetry--History and criticism.--19th century
English poetry--Themes, motives.--20th century
Commonwealth poetry (English)--Themes, motives.--19th century
Commonwealth poetry (English)--Themes, motives.--20th century
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Poésie anglaise--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
Poésie anglaise--Thèmes, motifs.--20e siècle
Poésie du Commonwealth (anglaise)--Thèmes, motifs.--19e siècle
Poésie du Commonwealth (anglaise)--Thèmes, motifs.--20e siècle
Primitivisme dans la littérature.
Exotisme dans la littérature.
Diversité culturelle dans la littérature.
Poésie anglaise--Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Poetry.
English poetry.
Exoticism in literature.
Primitivism in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN1271 / .M37 2004eb
821.009/3552
The idea of a colony : cross-culturalism in modern poetry / Edward Marx. - Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2004. - 1 online resource (viii, 213 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The spell of far Arabia: James Elroy Flecker's Islamic Near East -- The ends of the earth: Rudyard Kipling's Afghanistan -- The exotic transgressions of 'Laurence Hope' -- Everybody's anima: Sarojini Naidu as nightingale and nationalist -- The Tagore era -- The childhood that never was: Rupert Brooke's primitive paradise -- The infant Gargantua on the wet, black bough: Ezra Pound's Chinese object relations -- The red man in the drawing room: T.S. Eliot and the nativists -- The last nostalgia: Wallace Stevens in the shadow of the other -- Forgotten jungle songs: ambivalent primitivisms of the Harlem Renaissance.
"In The Idea of a Colony, Edward Marx provides a comprehensive approach to the question of cross-culturalism in modern poetry. He situates the work of canonical British and American modernist poets - Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Brooke, Kipling, and Flecker - in dialogue with the work of non-Western, colonial, and minority poets - Tagore, Naidu, Violet Nicolson - and brings into the discussion the poets of the Harlem Renaissance." "Drawing on psychological and cultural theory, Marx argues that primitivism and exoticism were the main forms of cross-culturalism in the modern period, and that these forms were organized around repression of the unconscious and irrational. To the psychological scene of the primitive/exotic poem and its reception, which is explored through substantial archival research, Marx brings an array of approaches including the theories of Freud, Jung, Lacan, Said, Foucault, Bhabha, Fanon, and others. The result is a series of powerful new readings of canonical modernists and a welcome expansion of the field of modern poetry into the age of multiculturalism and postcoloniality."--Jacket.
9781442681477 (electronic bk.) 1442681470 (electronic bk.) 1281994596 9781281994592
22573/ctt55mm2 JSTOR
English poetry--History and criticism.
Primitivism in literature.
Exoticism in literature.
English poetry--History and criticism.--19th century
English poetry--Themes, motives.--20th century
Commonwealth poetry (English)--Themes, motives.--19th century
Commonwealth poetry (English)--Themes, motives.--20th century
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Poésie anglaise--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
Poésie anglaise--Thèmes, motifs.--20e siècle
Poésie du Commonwealth (anglaise)--Thèmes, motifs.--19e siècle
Poésie du Commonwealth (anglaise)--Thèmes, motifs.--20e siècle
Primitivisme dans la littérature.
Exotisme dans la littérature.
Diversité culturelle dans la littérature.
Poésie anglaise--Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Poetry.
English poetry.
Exoticism in literature.
Primitivism in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN1271 / .M37 2004eb
821.009/3552