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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
World history in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism.
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Cosmology --- Religious thought --- World history in literature. --- Philosophy, English --- Cosmology in literature. --- History --- Marlowe, Christopher, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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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.
Literature --- World politics in literature. --- World history in literature. --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- History and criticism. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation
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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".
Cultural relations in literature. --- Culture conflict in literature. --- English fiction --- Literature and anthropology --- World history in literature. --- Anthropology and literature --- Anthropology --- History and criticism. --- History --- Achebe, Chinua --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Hardy, Thomas, --- Vargas Llosa, Mario, --- Achebe, Albert Chinua --- Achebe, Chinualumogu Albert --- Ats'ebeh, Ts'inuʼa --- Acībī, Cinūā --- Achebe, Albert Chinualumogu --- אצ׳בה, צ׳ינוא --- أتشينى، شينوا --- Vaughan Williams, Ralph, --- Political and social views. --- Cultural relations in literature --- Culture conflict in literature --- World history in literature --- History and criticism --- Fiction --- Thematology --- Comparative literature --- Political and social views --- 19th century --- 20th century --- Literature and anthropology - History - 20th century. --- Literature and anthropology - History - 19th century. --- English fiction - History and criticism --- Literature and anthropology - History - 20th century --- Literature and anthropology - History - 19th century --- Hardy, Thomas, - 1840-1928. - Mayor of Casterbridge --- Conrad, Joseph, - 1857-1924. - Lord Jim --- Achebe, Chinua - Political and social views --- Conflit culturel --- Littérature et anthropologie --- Achebe, Chinua (1930-....) --- Vargas Llosa, Mario (1936-....) --- Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) --- Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) --- Dans la littérature --- Achebe, Chinua.
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