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Curyłło-Klag I (Izabela) |
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Titolo |
Violence in early modernist fiction : The secret agent, Tarr, and Women in love / / Izabela Curyłło-Klag [[electronic resource]] |
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Krakow : , : Jagiellonian University Press, , 2011 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (126 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Violence in literature |
Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 May 2016). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter I. Modernist Consciousness of Crisisand the Emer gent Violence Mythos; Modernism as Sacrificial Crisis; The Secret Agent, Tarr and Women in Love; Mimetic Rivalries and Con tagion of Violence; The Violence My thos of Modernism; Review of Critic al Approaches to Violence and Modernism; Chapter II. Ticking Towards Disaster-Violenceas "The Enemy Within" in Conrad's The Secret Agent; England must be brought into line; Madness alone is truly terrifying; Blood alone puts a seal on greatness; She was not a submissiv e creature |
Simple ferocity of the age of cavernsChapter III. "All Personality Was Catching"-Mimetic Rivalryand the Con tagion of Violence in Tarr; Doomed, evidently; All in order for unbounded in flammation; A thirst for action; She had lain in wait for him; The bubonic plague; Not a duel but a brawl; Only a game, too; Chapter IV. Humanity in a Cul-de-sac: Women in Loveas an Epic of Sacrificial Crisis; An omen of universal dissolution; Mutual hellish recognition; A lurking desir e to have gizzard slit; Conclusion; Bibliography |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This study focuses on texts exploring human proclivity to violent behaviour. Building on the anthropological insights of René Girard, and on the premise that literature is a reflection of a cultural moment, Curyłło-Klag shows how early modernism registers symptoms of crisis which even the outbreak of World War I failed to resolve. Arranged in |
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chronological order, the works of Conrad, Lewis and Lawrence reveal an unfolding pattern and form a triptych, indicative of the growing intensity of the epoch in which they were produced. |
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