1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451775103321

Autore

Bell Kevin <1966->

Titolo

Ashes taken for fire [[electronic resource] ] : aesthetic modernism and the critique of identity / / Kevin Bell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8166-9889-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

823/.9109112

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - United States

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - England

Electronic books.

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 (p. 239-245) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Holographic ensemble : the death of doubt itself in The nigger of the "Narcissus" -- Something savage, something pedantic : imaginary portraits of certitude in Jacob's room -- Maladjusted phantasms : the ontological question of blackness in Light in August -- The business of dreams : retailing presence in Miss Lonelyhearts -- Chaos and surface in Invisible man -- Assuming the position : fugitivity and futurity in the work of Chester Himes.

Sommario/riassunto

Kevin Bell surveys fiction by Conrad, Woolf, Faulkner, West, Ellison, and Himes to argue that modernism exposes cultural identities such as blackness as mere strategies of conforming the self into belonging. For while blackness operates as a standard figural expression for disorientation, its presumably "voided" character is reprojected in this work as an immanent force of possibility and experimentation.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464122503321

Titolo

Modality in contemporary English / / edited by Roberta Facchinetti, Manfred Krug, Frank Palmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2003

ISBN

3-11-089533-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (412 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Topics in English linguistics ; ; 44

Classificazione

HF 177

Disciplina

425

Soggetti

English language - Modality

Modality (Linguistics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Modality in English: Theoretical, descriptive and typological issues / Palmer, Frank -- The semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs -- Irrealis, past time reference and modality / Larreya, Paul -- Modal auxiliary constructions, ΤΑΜ and interrogatives / Matthews, Richard -- A pragmatic analysis of the epistemic would construction in English / Ward, Gregory / Birner, Betty J. / Kaplan, Jeffrey P. -- Towards a contextual micro-analysis of the non-equivalence of might and could / Gresset, Stéphane -- The status of emerging modal items -- On two distinct uses of go as a conjoined marker of evaluative modality / Bourdin, Philippe -- Had better and might as well·. On the margins of modality? / Mitchell, Keith -- What you and I want: A functional approach to verb complementation of modal WANT TO / Verplaetse, Heidi -- Between epistemic modality and degree: The case of really / Paradis, Carita -- Stylistic variation and change -- Modality on the move: The English modal auxiliaries 1961-1992 / Leech, Geoffrey -- Changes in the modals and semi-modals of strong obligation and epistemic necessity in recent British English / Smith, Nicholas -- Shall and will in contemporary English: A comparison with past uses / Gotti, Maurizio -- Pragmatic and sociological constraints on the functions of may in contemporary British English / Facchinetti, Roberta -- Sociolinguistic variation and syntactic models -- The role of epistemic modality in women's talk / Coates,



Jennifer -- Double modals in the southern United States: Syntactic structure or syntactic structures? / Nagle, Stephen J. -- Modal verbs in Tyneside English: Evidence for (socio)linguistic theory / Trousdale, Graeme -- Subject index