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Record Nr.

UNINA9910153178903321

Autore

Uhlmann Anthony

Titolo

Thinking in literature : Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov / / Anthony Uhlmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Continuum, , 2011

ISBN

1-4411-9990-X

1-4411-4782-9

1-4725-4328-9

1-4411-2260-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

823/.9109112

Soggetti

Modernism (Literature) - History and criticism

Senses and sensation in literature

Thought and thinking in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [150]-159) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part 1: Literature and Thought. 1. Spinoza and Relation ; 2. Leibniz's 'perception': the Incompossible, the Viewpoint, and the Composition of Sensation ; 3. Composition as the Externalised Expression of Sensation -- Part 2: Thought in Modernist Fiction. 4. James Joyce: the art of Relation ; 5. Virginia Woolf: the art of Sensation ; 6. Vladimir Nabokov: the art of Composition -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

"Thinking in Literature examines how the Modernist novel might be understood as a machine for thinking, and how it offers means of coming to terms with what it means to think. It begins with a theoretical analysis, via Deleuze, Spinoza and Leibniz, of the concept of thinking in literature, and sets out three principle elements which continually announce themselves as crucial to the process of developing an aesthetic expression: relation; sensation; and composition. Uhlmann then examines the aesthetic practice of three major Modernist writers: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov. Each can be understood as working with relation, sensation and composition, yet each emphasize the interrelations between them in differing ways in expressing the potentials for thinking in literature."



--Bloomsbury Publishing.