The Idea of a Colony : : Cross-culturalism in Modern Poetry / / Edward Marx.

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• VerfasserIn: Marx, Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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, colon...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter One. The Spell of Far Arabia: James Elroy Fleckers Islamic Near East
• Chapter Two. The Ends of the Earth: Rudyard Kipling's Afghanistan
• Chapter Three. The Exotic Transgressions of 'Laurence Hope'
• Chapter Four. Everybody's Anima: Sarojini Naidu as Nightingale and Nationalist
• Chapter Five. The Tagore Era
• Chapter Six. The Childhood That Never Was: Rupert Brooke's Primitive Paradise
• Chapter Seven. The Infant Gargantua on the Wet, Black Bough: Pound's Chinese Object Relations
• Chapter Eight. The Red Man in the Drawing Room: T.S. Eliot and the Nativists
• Chapter Nine. The Last Nostalgia: Wallace Stevens in the Shadow of the Other
• Chapter Ten. Forgotten Jungle Songs: Ambivalent Primitivisms of the Harlem Renaissance
• Notes
• Index