Result of: subject:"Modernism (Literature)"

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

Includes index.

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 ...

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

"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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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