Cover: Beginning at the End: Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry, from Harvard University PressCover: Beginning at the End in HARDCOVER

Beginning at the End

Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry

Product Details

HARDCOVER

Print on Demand

$45.00 • £39.95 • €40.95

ISBN 9780674984431

Publication Date: 06/11/2018

x Text

392 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

24 halftones

World

Add to Cart

Media Requests:

Related Subjects

  • Introduction: Decadence and Decolonization
  • 1. Agha Shahid Ali, Oscar Wilde, and the Politics of Form for Form’s Sake
  • 2. Decadence and the Visual Arts in Derek Walcott’s West Indies
  • 3. Decadence and Antirealism in the Art of Yinka Shonibare
  • 4. Bernardine Evaristo’s Silver Age Poetics
  • 5. Decadence and the Archive in Derek Mahon’s The Yellow Book
  • Conclusion: Dandies at the Gate
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

From Our Blog

The Burnout Challenge

On Burnout Today with Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter

In The Burnout Challenge, leading researchers of burnout Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter focus on what occurs when the conditions and requirements set by a workplace are out of sync with the needs of people who work there. These “mismatches,” ranging from work overload to value conflicts, cause both workers and workplaces to suffer…