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The Solipsism of Modern Fiction

Author : Harold Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351473654
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Solipsism of Modern Fiction written by Harold Kaplan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Solipsism of Modern Fiction', Harold Kaplan deals with the problem of action and its adequate motive in the modern novel. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries modern scientific knowledge abandoned the human-centred view of the universe and thus the fictional modes that had been rooted in religion or myth. The result for fiction was a radical skepticism on the part of the protagonist who now appeared as a reflective, self-critical, passive figure lacking the dynamism of the epic hero or religious seeker. One response to the scientific worldview was the naturalism of Zola and his followers in which the action of characters is determined by social or biological forces. Kaplan, however, focuses his study on such novelists as Flaubert, Joyce, Conrad, Faulkner, Lawrence, and Hemingway who dramatised the isolated individual consciousness in contention with the world and with the ambiguity of their own motivations. 'The Solipsism of Modern Fiction' deals with several related topics that grow from one source, the crisis of knowledge in modern intellectual history. The effects of solipsism and of moral passivity, the split consciousness that divides action and understanding, the perspectives of primitive naturalism and stoic naturalism, the variations of the comic mood, and the example of tragedy, are all themes that are dramatised in Kaplan's readings of 'Madame Bovary', 'Light in August', 'Ulysses', 'Lord Jim', and other exemplary modern novels that associate themselves with the problem of self-criticism, knowing, and acting. Written by one of the outstanding literary scholars of our time, this book will inspire new generations of readers and writers.

The Solipsism of Modern Fiction

Author : Harold Kaplan
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412844037
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Solipsism of Modern Fiction written by Harold Kaplan and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published under title: The passive voice: an approach to modern fiction. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1966.

The Modern Novel

Author : Jesse Matz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470777028
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Novel written by Jesse Matz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form. A jargon-free introduction to the whole history of the novel in the twentieth century. Examines the main strands of twentieth-century fiction, including post-war, post-imperial and multicultural fiction, the global novel, the digital novel and the post-realist novel. Offers students ideas about how to read the modern novel, how to enjoy its strange experiments, and how to assess its value, as well as suggesting ways to understand and appreciate the more difficult forms of modern fiction Pays attention both to the practice of novel writing and to theoretical debates among novelists. Claims that the novel is as purposeful and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago. Serves as an excellent springboard for classroom discussions of the nature and purpose of modern fiction.

Twentieth-century Poetry, Fiction, Theory

Author : Harry Raphael Garvin
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838719343
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century Poetry, Fiction, Theory written by Harry Raphael Garvin and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues addressed in this volume include the limits of language and the need for linguistic form, the significance of creating.

The Individual and Utopia

Author : Clint Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317027582
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Individual and Utopia written by Clint Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this may be true, rarely are the individuals that comprise a community given primacy of place as central to a strong communal theory. This volume moves away from the dominant, current macro-level theorising on the subject of identity and its relationship to and with globalising trends, focusing instead on the individual’s relationship with utopia so as to offer new interpretive approaches for engaging with and examining utopian individuality. Interdisciplinary in scope and bringing together work from around the world, The Individual and Utopia enquires after the nature of the utopian as citizen, demonstrating the inherent value of making the individual central to utopian theorizing and highlighting the methodologies necessary for examining the utopian individual. The various approaches employed reveal what it is to be an individual yoked by the idea of citizenship and challenge the ways that we have traditionally been taught to think of the individual as citizen. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in social theory, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, architecture, and feminist thought, whose work intersects with political thought, utopian theorizing, or the study of humanity or human nature.

Beckett and the Modern Novel

Author : John Bolin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107029848
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Beckett and the Modern Novel written by John Bolin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bolin challenges the notion that Beckett's fiction is best understood through philosophical or Anglo-Irish literary contexts.

The Solipsistic Novels of Samuel Beckett

Author : Susan Schurman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Solipsistic Novels of Samuel Beckett written by Susan Schurman and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Structuralism

Author : Susan Wittig
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0915138166
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Structuralism written by Susan Wittig and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THEOLOGICAL PUBLISHERS - 2 : PICKWICK PRESS (1974-1980) - PICKWICK PUBLICATIONS (1982-) by Dikran Y. Hadidian Upon my return in September of 1973 from my sabbatical year in Beirut, where I had time to think through the initial plan of publishing dissertations, I approached the president of a local commercial printing company who also happened to be a friend. He, after several days of consideration, gave me the green light to go ahead and plan publications of theological monographs at the company's expense. I served as general editor fully responsible in all decisions to negotiate with authors, translators and editors of collected essays on the possible publication of their works. Thus BULLETIN ABTAPL VOL.2 N0.7 13 MARCH, 1990 in 1974 the Pickwick-Morcroft Company began to publish monographs under the name of Pickwick Press. The first series was called the Pittsburgh Theological Monograph Series together with two other series, namely Pittsburgh Reprint Series and Pittsburgh Original Texts and Translations Series. These continued until 1980, when the president of Pickwick-Morcroft suffered a stroke and his successor was not interested in continuing the previous arrangement. Dikran Y. Hadidian, Editor and Publisher, Pickwick Publications

Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture

Author : J. Karnicky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230603599
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture written by J. Karnicky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for the ethical relevancy of contemporary fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through reading novels by such writers as David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, and Irvine Welsh, this book looks at how these works seek to transform the ways that readers live in the world.

The Legacies of Modernism

Author : David James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139503472
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book The Legacies of Modernism written by David James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engagement with the continued importance of modernism is vital for building a nuanced account of the development of the novel after 1945. Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Dynamics of influence and adaptation are traced in dialogues between authors from across the twentieth century: Lawrence and A. S. Byatt, Woolf and J. M. Coetzee, Forster and Zadie Smith. The book sets out new critical and disciplinary foundations for rethinking the very terms we use to map the novel's progression and renewal, enhancing our understanding not only of what modernism was but also what it might still become. With its global reach, The Legacies of Modernism will appeal to scholars working not only in the new modernist studies, but also in postcolonial studies and comparative literature.

Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics

Author : Jesse Matz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521803527
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics written by Jesse Matz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2001 study addresses the problems of perception and representation that occupied modernist writers such as James, Conrad and Woolf.

Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities

Author : Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226618552
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities written by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-02-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty . . . weaves a brilliant analysis of the complex role of dreams and dreaming in Indian religion, philosophy, literature, and art. . . . In her creative hands, enchanting Indian myths and stories illuminate and are illuminated by authors as different as Aeschylus, Plato, Freud, Jung, Kurl Gödel, Thomas Kuhn, Borges, Picasso, Sir Ernst Gombrich, and many others. This richly suggestive book challenges many of our fundamental assumptions about ourselves and our world."—Mark C. Taylor, New York Times Book Review "Dazzling analysis. . . . The book is firm and convincing once you appreciate its central point, which is that in traditional Hindu thought the dream isn't an accident or byway of experience, but rather the locus of epistemology. In its willful confusion of categories, its teasing readiness to blur the line between the imagined and the real, the dream actually embodies the whole problem of knowledge. . . . [O'Flaherty] wants to make your mental flesh creep, and she succeeds."—Mark Caldwell, Village Voice

The Critics and Hemingway, 1924-2014

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 157113591X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Critics and Hemingway, 1924-2014 written by Laurence W. Mazzeno and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces Hemingway's critical fortunes over the ninety years of his prominence, telling us something about what we value in literature and why scholarly reputations rise and fall. Hemingway burst on the literary scene in the 1920s with spare, penetrating short stories and brilliant novels. Soon he was held as a standard for modern writers. Meanwhile, he used his celebrity to create a persona like the stoic, macho heroes of his fiction. After a decline during the 1930s and 1940s, he came roaring back with The Old Man and the Sea in 1952. Two years later he received the Nobel Prize. While his popularity waxed and waned during his lifetime, Hemingway's reputation among scholars remained strong as long as traditional scholarship dominated. New approaches beginning in the 1960s brought a sea change, however, finding grave fault with his work and making him a figure ripe for vilification. Yet during this time scholarship on him continued to appear. His works still sell well, and several are staples on high-school and college syllabi. A new scholarly edition of his letters is drawing prominent attention, and there is a resurgence in scholarly attention to - and approbation for - his work. Tracing Hemingway's critical fortunes tells us something about what we value in literature and why reputations rise and fall as scholars find new ways to examine and interpret creative work. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University. Among other books, he has written volumes on Austen, Dickens, Tennyson, Updike, and Matthew Arnold for Camden House's Literary Criticism in Perspective series.

Science Fiction Literature through History [2 volumes]

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction Literature through History [2 volumes] written by Gary Westfahl and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides students and other interested readers with a comprehensive survey of science fiction history and numerous essays addressing major science fiction topics, authors, works, and subgenres written by a distinguished scholar. This encyclopedia deals with written science fiction in all of its forms, not only novels and short stories but also mediums often ignored in other reference books, such as plays, poems, comic books, and graphic novels. Some science fiction films, television programs, and video games are also mentioned, particularly when they are relevant to written texts. Its focus is on science fiction in the English language, though due attention is given to international authors whose works have been frequently translated into English. Since science fiction became a recognized genre and greatly expanded in the 20th century, works published in the 20th and 21st centuries are most frequently discussed, though important earlier works are not neglected. The texts are designed to be helpful to numerous readers, ranging from students first encountering science fiction to experienced scholars in the field.

Solitude and its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction

Author : E. Engelberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137105984
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Solitude and its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction written by E. Engelberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of solitude in high modernist writing, Edward Engelberg explores the ways in which solitude functions thematically to shape meaning in literary works, as well as what solitude as a condition has contributed to the making of a trope. Selected novels are analyzed for the ambiguities that solitude injects into their meanings. The freedom of solitude also becomes a burden from which the protagonists seek liberation. Although such ambiguities about solitude exist from the Bible and the Ancients through the centuries following, they change within the context of time. The story of solitude in the twentieth century moves from the self's removal from society and retreat into nature to an extra-social position within which the self confronts itself. A chapter is devoted to the synoptic analysis of solitude in the West, with emphasis on the Renaissance to the twentieth century, and another chapter analyzes the ambiguities that set the stage for modernism: Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Selected works by Woolf, Mann, Camus, Sartre, and Beckett highlight particular modernist issues of solitude and how their authors sought to resolve them.

The Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies

Author : Michael K. Bourdaghs
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472901435
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book The Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies written by Michael K. Bourdaghs and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970s and 1980s saw a revolution in Japanese literary criticism. A new generation of scholars and critics, many of them veterans of 1960s political activism, arose in revolt against the largely positivistic methodologies that had hitherto dominated postwar literary studies. Creatively refashioning approaches taken from the field of linguistics, the new scholarship challenged orthodox interpretations, often introducing new methodologies in the process: structuralism, semiotics, and phenomenological linguistics, among others. The radical changes introduced then continue to reverberate today, shaping the way Japanese literature is studied both at home and abroad. The Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies is the first critical study of this revolution to appear in English. It includes translations of landmark essays published in the 1970s and 1980s by such influential figures as Noguchi Takehiko, Kamei Hideo, Mitani Kuniaki, and Hirata Yumi. It also collects nine new essays that reflect critically on the emergence of linguistics-based literary criticism and theory in Japan, exploring both the novel possibilities such theory created and the shortcomings that could not be overcome. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and fields probe the political and intellectual implications of this transformation and explore the exciting new pathways it opened up for the study of modern Japanese literature.

Real Voices

Author : Philip Davis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349255084
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Real Voices written by Philip Davis and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-07-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets, novelists and critics committed to creative thinking join together in this collection of essays to say what serious reading really means to them as individuals. The collection is divided into four sections: George Steiner and George Craig on the act of reading in general; Joseph Brodsky, Les Murray, Douglas Oliver and Hester Jones on reading, poetry and vision; John Bayley, Philip Davis and Gabriel Josipovici on reading and teaching in the universities; Raymond Tallis, Michael Irwin, Josie Billington and Doris Lessing on reading and the novel.