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To the psychological scene of the primitive/exotic poem and its reception, which is explored through substantial archival research, Marx brings an array of approaches including the theories of Freud, Jung, Lacan, Said, Foucault, Bhabha, Fanon, and others.

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Spell of Far Arabia: James Elroy Flecker's Islamic Near East 2 The Ends of the Earth: Rudyard Kipling's Afghanistan 3 The Exotic Transgressions of'Laurence Hope' 4 Everybody's Anima: Sarojini Naidu as Nightingale and Nationalist 5 The Tagore Era 6 The Childhood That Never Was: Rupert Brooke's Primitive Paradise 7 The Infant Gargantua on the Wet, Black Bough: Ezra Pound's Chinese Object Relations 8 The Red Man in the Drawing Room: T.S. Eliot and the Nativists 9 The Last Nostalgia: Wallace Stevens in the Shadow of the Other 10 Forgotten Jungle Songs: Ambivalent Primitivisms of the Harlem Renaissance Notes Index

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: 02/06/2004
      ISBN13: 9780802087997, 978-0802087997
      ISBN10: 080208799X
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      To the psychological scene of the primitive/exotic poem and its reception, which is explored through substantial archival research, Marx brings an array of approaches including the theories of Freud, Jung, Lacan, Said, Foucault, Bhabha, Fanon, and others.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Spell of Far Arabia: James Elroy Flecker's Islamic Near East 2 The Ends of the Earth: Rudyard Kipling's Afghanistan 3 The Exotic Transgressions of'Laurence Hope' 4 Everybody's Anima: Sarojini Naidu as Nightingale and Nationalist 5 The Tagore Era 6 The Childhood That Never Was: Rupert Brooke's Primitive Paradise 7 The Infant Gargantua on the Wet, Black Bough: Ezra Pound's Chinese Object Relations 8 The Red Man in the Drawing Room: T.S. Eliot and the Nativists 9 The Last Nostalgia: Wallace Stevens in the Shadow of the Other 10 Forgotten Jungle Songs: Ambivalent Primitivisms of the Harlem Renaissance Notes Index

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