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

• Autore: Crangle Sara
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 809.9112
• Soggetto topico: Modernism (Literature); Psychoanalysis and literature; Desire in literature
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Prosaic desires
• ISBN: 0-7486-5195-0; 1-282-74992-7; 9786612749926; 0-7486-4286-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459239803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II