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Beginning with the important Victorian architects of culture--Matthew Arnold and Edward Tylor--the book follows a number of main figures, schools, and movements up to 1950 such as anthropologist Franz Boas, his disciples Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Zora Neale Hurston, literary modernists T. S. Eliot and James Joyce, functional anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, modernist literary critic I. A. Richards, the New Critics, and Kenneth Burke. The main focus here, however, is upon three works published in 1922, the watershed year of Modernism--Eliot's The Waste Land, Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific, and Joyce's Ulysses. Manganaro reads these masterworks and the history of their reception as efforts toward defining culture. This is a wide-ranging and ambitious study about an ambiguous and complex concept as it moves within and between disciplines.
- Einband Taschenbuch
- Schriftsteller Manganaro, Marc
- ISBN13 9780691001371
- ISBN10 0691001375
- Buchseiten 231
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2002
- Sprache Englisch
Culture, 1922: the emergence of a concept
- Autor/in Marc Manganaro
- Verlag PRINCETON
- ISBN 9780691001371