Artefacts of writing : ideas of the state and communities of letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing / Peter D. McDonald.

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McDonald, Peter D [author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.Edition: First editionDescription: x, 326 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780198725152 (hbk.)

Other title:

Artifacts of writing

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LOC classification:

PN51 M14 2017

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Contents:

Part I: 1867-1945 -- 1. Oxford at the crossroads: England and the world beyond -- 2. T.S. Eliot vs the league and UNESCO -- 3. Independence, dependence, and interdependence day: Finnegans Wake and the modern state -- Part II: 1946-2014 -- Prologue: The C in UNESCO: a very short introduction -- 4. Notes towards a Vagabond humanism : Mphahlele's Tagore / Rabindranath's Bauls -- 5. Against state literacy: J. M. Coetzee vs the novel -- 6. Beyond translation: Antjie Krog vs the mother tongue -- Against naturalization: Arvind Khrishna Mehrotra and the interplay of languages -- 8. Beyond multiculturalism: Tagore..Joyce...Rushdie..Chaudhuri Postcript: between Sky and Ground - the art of Xu Bing.

Summary: "Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics. In Artefacts of Writing, Peter D. McDonald argues they pose as much of a challenge to the way states conceptualise language, culture, and community. Drawing on a wealth of evidence, from Victorian scholarly disputes over the identity of the English language to the constitutional debates about its future in Ireland, India, and South Africa, and from the quarrels over the idea of culture within the League of Nations in the interwar years to UNESCO's ongoing struggle to articulate a viable concept of diversity, McDonald brings together a large ensemble of legacy writers, including T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Rabindranath Tagore, putting them in dialogue with each other and with the policy-makers who shaped the formation of modern states and the history of internationalist thought from the 1860s to the 1940s. In the second part of the book, he reflects on the continuing evolution of these dialogues, showing how a varied array of more contemporary writers from Amit Chaudhuri, J. M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie to Antjie Krog, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, and Es'kia Mphahlele cast new light on a range of questions concerning education, literacy, human rights, translation, indigenous knowledge, and cultural diversity that have preoccupied UNESCO since 1945."--Amazon.com

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Books	Ladislao N. Diwa Memorial Library Reserve Section	Non-fiction	RUS PN51 M14 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Room use only	76958		00078043

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-320) and index.

"Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics. In Artefacts of Writing, Peter D. McDonald argues they pose as much of a challenge to the way states conceptualise language, culture, and community. Drawing on a wealth of evidence, from Victorian scholarly disputes over the identity of the English language to the constitutional debates about its future in Ireland, India, and South Africa, and from the quarrels over the idea of culture within the League of Nations in the interwar years to UNESCO's ongoing struggle to articulate a viable concept of diversity, McDonald brings together a large ensemble of legacy writers, including T.S. Eliot, James Joyce,
and Rabindranath Tagore, putting them in dialogue with each other and with the policy-makers who shaped the formation of modern states and the history of internationalist thought from the 1860s to the 1940s. In the second part of the book, he reflects on the continuing evolution of these dialogues, showing how a varied array of more contemporary writers from Amit Chaudhuri, J. M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie to Antjie Krog, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, and Es'kia Mphahlele cast new light on a range of questions concerning education, literacy, human rights, translation, indigenous knowledge, and cultural diversity that have preoccupied UNESCO since 1945."--Amazon.com

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