02941nam 22006132 450 991045923980332120151002020704.00-7486-5195-01-282-74992-797866127499260-7486-4286-2(CKB)2670000000044624(EBL)581389(OCoLC)664800194(SSID)ssj0000426309(PQKBManifestationID)11287919(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000426309(PQKBWorkID)10388997(PQKB)10861282(UkCbUP)CR9780748642861(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055575(MiAaPQ)EBC581389(Au-PeEL)EBL581389(CaPaEBR)ebr10409246(CaONFJC)MIL274992(EXLCZ)99267000000004462420120514d2010|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierProsaic desires modernist knowledge, boredom, laughter, and anticipation /Sara Crangle[electronic resource]Edinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,2010.1 online resource (x, 214 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).0-7486-4085-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Modernism (Literature)Psychoanalysis and literatureDesire in literatureModernism (Literature)Psychoanalysis and literature.Desire in literature.809.9112Crangle Sara846661UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910459239803321Prosaic desires2480596UNINA