Modernism, narrative, and humanism / / Paul Sheehan [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Sheehan Paul <1960->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 823/.9109112
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain; Humanism in literature; Narration (Rhetoric)
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: The anthropometric turn -- Narrating the animal, amputating the soul -- Conrad and technology: homo ex machina -- The Lawrentian transcendent: after the fall -- Woolf's luminance: time out of mind -- Doubting Beckett: voices descant, stories still -- Conclusion: Humanness unbound.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Modernism, Narrative and Humanism, Paul Sheehan attempts to redefine modernist narrative for the twenty-first century. For Sheehan modernism presents a major form of critique of the fundamental presumptions of humanism. By pairing key modernist writers with philosophical critics of the humanist tradition, he shows how modernists sought to discover humanism's inhuman potential. He examines the development of narrative during the modernist period and sets it against, among others, the nineteenth-century philosophical writings of Schopenhauer , Darwin and Nietzsche. Focusing on the major novels and poetics of Conrad, Lawrence, Woolf and Beckett, Sheehan investigates these writers' mistrust of humanist orthodoxy and their consequent transformations and disfigurations of narrative order. He reveals the crucial link between the modernist novel's narrative concerns and its philosophical orientation in a book that will be of compelling interest to scholars of modernism and literary theory.
• Altri titoli varianti: Modernism, Narrative & Humanism
• Titolo autorizzato: Modernism, narrative, and humanism
• ISBN: 1-107-13380-7; 0-521-09912-9; 0-511-14790-2; 0-511-12060-5; 0-511-30505-2; 1-280-16079-9; 0-511-04562-X; 0-511-48530-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780292603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II