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Silverless mirrors

Author: Charles Caramello
Published: 1983
book: 250 pages
ISBN:0813007720
ISBN:9780813007724
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Subject: Literary Criticism

1 Shaping Presences, Shaped Absences . silve me solve, exsogerraider! James Joyce Finnegans Wake How do the problematics of the book and of the authorial ...

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Politics, writing, mutilation

Author: Allan Stoekl
Published: 1985
book: 159 pages
ISBN:0816612994
ISBN:9780816612994
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
Subject: Literary Criticism

Includes index.

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Refiguring Modernism

Author: Bonnie Kime Scott
Published: 1995-12
book: 318 pages
ISBN:0253329361
ISBN:9780253329363
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Subject: Social Science

1 (Dys)functional Families I was obsessed by them both, unhealthily; & writing of them was a necessary act. —Virginia Woolf of her parents, D 208 My sister ...

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Women of the Left Bank

Author: Shari Benstock
Published: 1986
book: 518 pages
ISBN:0292790406
ISBN:9780292790407
Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr
Subject: History

Offers profiles of British and American expatriate women in Paris, including Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, H.D., Katherine Anne Porter, and Edith Wharton

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Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and the modern temper

Author: Edward Alexander
Published: 1973
book: 310 pages
ISBN:0814201881
ISBN:9780814201886
Publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr
Subject: Art

"Devoting me to God," meant, as far as my mother knew herself what she meant, that she would try to send me to college, and make a clergyman of me: and I ...

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"Here a captive heart busted"

Author: Howard W. Fulweiler
Published: 1993
book: 207 pages
ISBN:0823214966
ISBN:9780823214969
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Subject: Literary Criticism

As a study of evolution of consciousness-rather than the history of ideas- the argument grows out of the work of philosophers such as Ernst Cassirer and Susanne ...

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D.H. Lawrence and modernism

Author: Tony Pinkney
Published: 1990
book: 180 pages
ISBN:0877452954
ISBN:9780877452959
Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr
Subject: Literary Criticism

Introduction: Lawrence as Modernist DH Lawrence has always been the most provocative of modernist authors: to the British Establishment in the first decades ...

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Bely, Joyce, and Döblin

Author: Peter I. Barta
Published: 1996-09
book: 119 pages
ISBN:0813014506
ISBN:9780813014500
Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida
Subject: Literary Criticism

The book examines Andrei Bely's Petersburg, James Joyce's Dublin, and Alfred Dblin's Berlin with special attention to the juxtaposition of details of the city ...

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The moderns

Author: John Freeman
Published: 1917
book: 341 pages
ISBN:0813014506
ISBN:9780813014500
Publisher: null
Subject: Literary Criticism

THE MODERNS GEORGE BERNARD SHAW MR. SHAW has told us so much about himself, and told it so often, that any commentary by another may seem superfluous. ...

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Modernism

Author: Peter Gay
Published: 2008
book: 610 pages
ISBN:0393052052
ISBN:9780393052053
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Subject: Architecture

Traces the rise of Modernism in the arts from its inception in the mid-nineteenth century to its end in the wake of the development of Pop Art, analyzing its ...

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Literary history, modernism, and postmodernism

Author: Douwe Wessel Fokkema
Published: 1984
book: 63 pages
ISBN:9027221944
ISBN:9789027221940
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject: Literary Collections

I. Literary History from an International Point of View It is my intention to deal with various aspects of modern literary history and to pay some attention ...

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Robbe-Grillet and modernity

Author: Raylene L. Ramsay
Published: 1992
book: 301 pages
ISBN:0813011450
ISBN:9780813011455
Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida
Subject: Literary Criticism

Introduction Is there subversion in the science or in the semiotics of sex that so distinctively mark Robbe-Grillet's work? This study investigates the ...

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The world and the book

Author: Gabriel Josipovici
Published: 1971
book: 318 pages
ISBN:0804707979
ISBN:9780804707978
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Subject: Literary Criticism

of Itself Eight words emerge from the silence, hang for a moment in the air, then die away: 'Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure. ...

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Gestures of healing

Author: John Jacob Clayton
Published: 1991-06
book: 230 pages
ISBN:087023739X
ISBN:9780870237393
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr
Subject: Literary Criticism

CHAPTER ONE UNTHINKABLE ANXIETY F OR A LONG TIME I have felt deep affinities to British and American fiction of high modernism — the canon of great novels ...

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Pirandello and the crisis of modern consciousness

Author: Anthony Francis Caputi
Published: 1988-04-01
book: 172 pages
ISBN:0252014685
ISBN:9780252014680
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
Subject: Literary Criticism

INTRODUCTION OUTSIDE ITALY Luigi Pirandello is usually seen as a master ironist who wrote largely about the mind and its quirky paradoxes. ...

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The turning word

Author: Joseph N. Riddel
Published: 1996-11
book: 172 pages
ISBN:0812216008
ISBN:9780812216004
Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
Subject: Literary Criticism

The essays presented here, chosen by the author for book publication before his death, embody Riddel's culminating meditations upon literary theory and modern ...

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Satire

Author: Dustin H. Griffin
Published: 1994-12-15
book: 245 pages
ISBN:0813108292
ISBN:9780813108292
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
Subject: Literary Criticism

Here is the ideal introduction to satire for the student and, for the experienced scholar, an occasion to reconsider the uses, problems, and pleasures of satire ...

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Obdurate brilliance

Author: Peter Baker
Published: 1991-10
book: 224 pages
ISBN:0813010640
ISBN:9780813010649
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Subject: Poetry

Introduction: Against Interiority Against Interiority Poetry, especially modern and contemporary poetry, has not received the same level of theoretically ...

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Echo chambers

Author: Patrick O'Donnell
Published: 1992-09
book: 224 pages
ISBN:0877453756
ISBN:9780877453758
Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr
Subject: Literary Criticism

Introduction Figuring Voice in Narrative am the voice of one who cries in the wilderness": these precursory words of John the Baptist, who quotes the ...

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Skeptical selves

Author: Elena Russo
Published: 1996
book: 225 pages
ISBN:0804724652
ISBN:9780804724654
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Subject: Literary Criticism

This book examines three first-person novels that narrate spectacular failures of self-representation.

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