Author: Dennis Brown
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349199133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
An exploration of how key modern writers challenged conventional ways of characterizing selfhood, thus developing a discourse expressive of the subtleties of experience in a post-Freudian world long before the self-representation theories of the post-structuralists and post-modernists.
The Modernist Self in Twentieth-Century English Literature
Author: Dennis Brown
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349199133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
An exploration of how key modern writers challenged conventional ways of characterizing selfhood, thus developing a discourse expressive of the subtleties of experience in a post-Freudian world long before the self-representation theories of the post-structuralists and post-modernists.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349199133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
An exploration of how key modern writers challenged conventional ways of characterizing selfhood, thus developing a discourse expressive of the subtleties of experience in a post-Freudian world long before the self-representation theories of the post-structuralists and post-modernists.
The Modernist Novel
Author: Stephen Kern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139499475
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Leading scholar Stephen Kern offers a probing analysis of the modernist novel, encompassing American, British and European works. Organized thematically, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the stunningly original formal innovations in novels by Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Proust, Gide, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Kafka, Musil and others. Kern contextualizes and explains how formal innovations captured the dynamic history of the period, reconstructed as ten master narratives. He also draws briefly on poetry and painting of the first half of the twentieth century. The Modernist Novel is set to become a fundamental source for discussions of the genre and a useful introduction to the subject for students and scholars of modernism and twentieth-century literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139499475
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Leading scholar Stephen Kern offers a probing analysis of the modernist novel, encompassing American, British and European works. Organized thematically, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the stunningly original formal innovations in novels by Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Proust, Gide, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Kafka, Musil and others. Kern contextualizes and explains how formal innovations captured the dynamic history of the period, reconstructed as ten master narratives. He also draws briefly on poetry and painting of the first half of the twentieth century. The Modernist Novel is set to become a fundamental source for discussions of the genre and a useful introduction to the subject for students and scholars of modernism and twentieth-century literature.
Constructing the Literary Self
Author: Patsy J. Daniels
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443861111
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In the twentieth century, as previously excluded groups, including ethnic minorities, women, the disabled, and the differently gendered, gained a voice in society, group identity also changed and new definitions became necessary. Whether through their group affiliations or in spite of these affiliations, many individuals sought a new definition of themselves. As can be expected, much literature explores these changes and depicts the quest for new definitions and the search for individuality in the light of new definitions. Construction or definition of the self was once available only to the elite, and the freedom of some to define their identity was sacrificed so that others could make their own self-definitions; this practice can be found throughout much of history. This volume is about that kind of oppression and various strategies of escaping from oppression as depicted in serious literature. Its thirteen essays, all by recognized scholars, are divided into five categories: Race, Gender, and the Self; Assimilation and the Self; Black Males and the Self; Female Sexuality and the Self; and The Family and the Self.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443861111
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In the twentieth century, as previously excluded groups, including ethnic minorities, women, the disabled, and the differently gendered, gained a voice in society, group identity also changed and new definitions became necessary. Whether through their group affiliations or in spite of these affiliations, many individuals sought a new definition of themselves. As can be expected, much literature explores these changes and depicts the quest for new definitions and the search for individuality in the light of new definitions. Construction or definition of the self was once available only to the elite, and the freedom of some to define their identity was sacrificed so that others could make their own self-definitions; this practice can be found throughout much of history. This volume is about that kind of oppression and various strategies of escaping from oppression as depicted in serious literature. Its thirteen essays, all by recognized scholars, are divided into five categories: Race, Gender, and the Self; Assimilation and the Self; Black Males and the Self; Female Sexuality and the Self; and The Family and the Self.
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-century English Verse
Author: Philip Larkin
Publisher: Oxford Books of Verse
ISBN: 9780198121374
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.
Publisher: Oxford Books of Verse
ISBN: 9780198121374
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.
Masculine Identity in Modernist Literature
Author: Allan Johnson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319655094
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
This book is about the modernist narrative voice and its correlation to medical, mythological, and psychoanalytic images of emasculation between 1919 and 1945. It shows how special-effects of rhetoric and form inspired by outré modernist developments in psychoanalysis, occultism, and negative philosophy reshaped both narrative structure and the literary depiction of modern masculine identity. In acknowledging early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature’s self-conscious and self-reflexive understanding of the effect of textual production, this engaging new study depicts a history of writers and readers understanding the role of textual absence in the development and chronicling of masculine anxiety and optimism.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319655094
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
This book is about the modernist narrative voice and its correlation to medical, mythological, and psychoanalytic images of emasculation between 1919 and 1945. It shows how special-effects of rhetoric and form inspired by outré modernist developments in psychoanalysis, occultism, and negative philosophy reshaped both narrative structure and the literary depiction of modern masculine identity. In acknowledging early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature’s self-conscious and self-reflexive understanding of the effect of textual production, this engaging new study depicts a history of writers and readers understanding the role of textual absence in the development and chronicling of masculine anxiety and optimism.
Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature
Author: Adam Piette
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748653937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 719
Book Description
The first reference book to deal so fully and incisively with the cultural representations of war in 20th-century English and US literature and film. The volume covers the two World Wars as well as specific conflicts that generated literary and imaginativ
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748653937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 719
Book Description
The first reference book to deal so fully and incisively with the cultural representations of war in 20th-century English and US literature and film. The volume covers the two World Wars as well as specific conflicts that generated literary and imaginativ
Self-Consciousness in Modern British Fiction
Author: B. Miller
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137076658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Using a cognitive approach to literature, this book uncovers representations of self-consciousness in selected modern British novels, exposing it as complicating character development. Miller provides new readings of works by Conrad, Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence to demonstrate the emergence of a self who feels split from the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137076658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Using a cognitive approach to literature, this book uncovers representations of self-consciousness in selected modern British novels, exposing it as complicating character development. Miller provides new readings of works by Conrad, Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence to demonstrate the emergence of a self who feels split from the world.
Unknowing
Author: Philip M. Weinstein
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801489730
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Weinstein explores the modernist commitment to 'unknowling' by addressing the work of three experimental writers: Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, & William Faulkner.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801489730
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Weinstein explores the modernist commitment to 'unknowling' by addressing the work of three experimental writers: Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, & William Faulkner.
Modernism, Feminism and the Culture of Boredom
Author: Allison Pease
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107027578
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Illustrates how boredom formed an important category of critique against the constraints of women's lives in British modernist literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107027578
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Illustrates how boredom formed an important category of critique against the constraints of women's lives in British modernist literature.
A History of Modernist Literature
Author: Andrzej Gasiorek
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118607333
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
A History of Modernist Literature offers a critical overview of modernism in England between the late 1890s and the late 1930s, focusing on the writers, texts, and movements that were especially significant in the development of modernism during these years. A stimulating and coherent account of literary modernism in England which emphasizes the artistic achievements of particular figures and offers detailed readings of key works by the most significant modernist authors whose work transformed early twentieth-century English literary culture Provides in-depth discussion of intellectual debates, the material conditions of literary production and dissemination, and the physical locations in which writers lived and worked The first large-scale book to provide a systematic overview of modernism as it developed in England from the late 1890s through to the late 1930s
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118607333
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
A History of Modernist Literature offers a critical overview of modernism in England between the late 1890s and the late 1930s, focusing on the writers, texts, and movements that were especially significant in the development of modernism during these years. A stimulating and coherent account of literary modernism in England which emphasizes the artistic achievements of particular figures and offers detailed readings of key works by the most significant modernist authors whose work transformed early twentieth-century English literary culture Provides in-depth discussion of intellectual debates, the material conditions of literary production and dissemination, and the physical locations in which writers lived and worked The first large-scale book to provide a systematic overview of modernism as it developed in England from the late 1890s through to the late 1930s