Title: Artefacts of writing : ideas of the state and communities of letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing /
Authors: McDonald, Peter D.
Year: 2017
Subjects: Unesco; Literature and state.; Culture in literature.; Language and languages in literature.; Communities in literature.; International relations in literature.; Literature, Modern History and criticism; Literature, Modern History and criticism; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General.; Communities in literature.; Culture in literature.; International relations in literature.; Language and languages in literature.; Literature and state; Literature, Modern
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 Bāuls -- 5. Against state literacy : J.M. Coetzee vs the novel -- 6. Beyond translation : Antjie Krog vs the 'mother tongue' -- 7. Against naturalization : Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and the 'interplay of languages' -- 8. Beyond multiculturalism : Tagore.. Joyce... Rushdie.. Chaudhuri -- Postscript : Between Sky and Ground - the art of Xu Bing.