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标题：‘Shapely Experience’ and the Limits of ‘Late Colonial Transcendentalism’: The Portrait of the Artist as Soldier in Roger McDonald’s 1915
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作者：Christopher Lee
期刊名称：Campos - Revista de Antropologia Social
印刷版ISSN：1519-5538
出版年度：2011
卷号：11
期号：2
语种：English
出版社：Universidade Federal do Paraná, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social
摘要：This essay argues that Roger McDonald’s debut novel 1915 represents a form of literary modernism which rejects the easy aesthetic comforts of ‘late colonial transcendentalism’ (17). McDonald presents an intricate -- we might even say ritualised -- pattern of subversive counterpoint to ‘reveal and dramatise the failure of the subject to escape its own limits, and hence its own history’ (McCann 155). The result is a highly self-conscious literary novel that seeks to reconcile the art of high modernism with a postcolonial practice interested in the consequences of public memory.
关键词：Roger McDonald, 1915, War, Art, Music, Society, Gender, Postcolonialism