LEADER 03569nam 22006495 450 001 9910495193603321 005 20230810173240.0 010 $a3-030-78544-0 010 $a3030785440$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a9783030785444$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783030785437$bhardcover 010 $z3030785432$bhardcover 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-78544-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000011996249 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6696220 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6696220 035 $a(OCoLC)1263875315 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-78544-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011996249 100 $a20210810d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auraz#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aModernist Short Fiction and Things /$fby Aimée Gasston 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations 225 1 $aMaterial Modernisms,$x2661-8281 311 $a3-030-78543-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Chapter 1: Virginia Woolf?s Armchair Aesthetics -- Chapter 2: Katherine Mansfield and the Story-as-Snack -- Chapter 3: Elizabeth Bowen and Eccentric Accessories -- Conclusion: Stories and their Objects, Reading and Being. 330 $aThis book reappraises the philosophical value of short fiction by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen, examining the stories through the lens of specific everyday objects. Looking at Woolf and armchairs, Mansfield and snack food, and Bowen and fashion accessories, it probes the aesthetic resonance between these stories? form and contents and also considers the modes of thinking they might promote. Conceiving of their short fiction as intrinsically radical and experimental even within a wider context of modernist innovation, this book shows how these important women writers brought quotidian objects to riotous life, in such a way that tasked readers with reevaluating their everyday existence. Overall, Modernist Short Fiction and Things argues that short fiction epitomises modernist aesthetics, functioning as a resonant source for investigation and complementing and expanding our understanding of modernist epistemology. ' It offers a suggestive analysis of the ways in which three modernist writers mobilise the thing-like quality of the short story form for an exploration of the uncanniness of the object world. The close readings of Woolf, Mansfield and Bowen are inventive, thoughtful and perceptive.? - Clare Hanson, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Southampton, UK. 410 0$aMaterial Modernisms,$x2661-8281 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x20th century 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aComparative Literature 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aLiterary Theory 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x20th century. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aComparative Literature. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 676 $a823.912 676 $a823.91209112 700 $aGasston$b Aime?e$0853401 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495193603321 996 $aModernist Short Fiction and Things$91905553 997 $aUNINA