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Eclipse of empires
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ISBN: 081738703X 9780817387037 9780817313821 0817313826 Year: 2013 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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Eclipse of Empires analyzes the nineteenth-century American fascination with what Patricia Jane Roylance calls "narratives of imperial eclipse," texts that depict the surpassing of one great civilization by another.Patricia Jane Roylance's central claim in Eclipse of Empires is that historical episodes of imperial eclipse, for example Incan Peru yielding to Spain or the Ojibway to the French, heightened the concerns of many American writers about specific intranational social problems plaguing the nation at the time-race, class, gender, religion, economics. Given


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The Marlovian World Picture
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ISBN: 3110889846 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton,

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Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature
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ISBN: 1781382263 1781381895 Year: 2015 Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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This text attempts to resituate the problem of 'world literature', considered as a revived category of theoretical enquiry, by pursuing the literary-cultural implications of the theory of combined and uneven development.

The novel and the globalization of culture
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ISBN: 1280540052 0195358287 1429406542 9781429406543 9780195089516 0195089510 0195089529 0195089510 9780195089523 0197725538 Year: 1995 Publisher: New york Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This text analyzes the emergence of the modern novel and the manner in which it mirrors the underlying process of the globalization of culture. It focuses on Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge", Conrad's "Lord Jim", Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" and Vargas Llosa's "The War at the End of the World".

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