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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459239803321

Autore

Crangle Sara

Titolo

Prosaic desires : modernist knowledge, boredom, laughter, and anticipation / / Sara Crangle [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010

ISBN

0-7486-5195-0

1-282-74992-7

9786612749926

0-7486-4286-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

809.9112

Soggetti

Modernism (Literature)

Psychoanalysis and literature

Desire in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dying to know. Knowledge and aesthetics ; Epiphanic dead-ends : Joyce and Woolf ; Stephen Dedalus and Schopenhauer ; Parodic resurrection : epiphanies in Ulysses ; Stephen and Nietzche ; Bloom and Levinas ; Conclusions -- Haunted by boredom. Gauging boredom ; The time being ; Woolf's boredoms ; Orlando's regenerative Oak ; "The lady in the looking-glass ; Conclusions -- Inclining towards laughter. Modernist laughter ; Stein Regales ; Q.E.D. and solitary responsibility ; A Long gay book and shared laughter ; Two and infinite levity ; Conclusions -- In the meantime. War, angst, and patience ; Between the acts : not now ; Mrs. Reynolds : not yet ; Conclusions -- Conclusion : endlessnessnessness.

Sommario/riassunto

Exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction  this book poses a direct challenge to psychoanalytic criticism that characterises desire as sexual or powerful in nature. Using continental philosophy as its framework  it contends that human longings are as endless in kind as they are in manifestation.