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By: Mukherjee, Ankhi
Price: $69.95
Publisher: Stanford University Press: November 2013
Seller ID: 52095
ISBN: 080478521X
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in twentieth- and twenty-first century English and Anglophone literature, Ankhi Mukherjee demonstrates the relevance of the question of the classic for the global politics of identifying and perpetuating so-called core texts. Emergent canons are scrutinized in the context of the wider cultural phenomena of book prizes, the translation and distribution of world literatures,...
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