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Book SynopsisThis text traces the intellectual and institutional deployment of the culture concept in England and America in the first half of the 20th century. It works across disciplinary lines to embrace literary, literary critical, and anthropological writing.
Trade Review"This is an excellent, original, well-written book. It makes a significant contribution to the history of both Modernism and of the concept of culture--as well as to the interpretation of some of the most consequential works of the interwar period. A most important work."--Clifford Geertz, author of Available Light: Anthropological Reflections of Philosophical Topics
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION Culture, Anthropology, and the "Literary" Modern 1 CHAPTER 1 Making Up for Lost Ground: Eliot's Cultural Geographics 16 CHAPTER 2 Malinowski: Writing, Culture, Function, Kula 56 CHAPTER 3 Malinowski, "Native" Narration, and "The Ethnographer's Magic" 78 CHAPTER 4 Joyce and His Critics: Notes toward the Definition of Culture 105 CHAPTER 5 Joyce's Wholes: Culture, Tales, and Tellings 132 CHAPTER 6 Patterns of Culture: Ruth Benedict and the New Critics 151 CHAPTER 7 Hurston, Burke, and the New Critics: Narrative, Context, and Magic 175 AFTERWORD Culture's Pasts, Presents, and Futures 200 Notes 203 Index 225
