Against the Event: The Everyday and Evolution of Modernist Narrative - Couverture rigide

Sayeau, Michael

 
9780199681259: Against the Event: The Everyday and Evolution of Modernist Narrative
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0199681252 ISBN 13 : 9780199681259
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Against the Event: The Everyday and the Evolution of Modernist Narrative investigates how a modernity famed for temporal acceleration - from Benjamin's 'shock' and 'distraction' to the postmodern loss of historical consciousness diagnosed by Jameson - generated fictions defined, strangely enough, not just by the 'new' but just as forcefully by everyday depletions of stasis and repetition, a flood of sameness in modern life. With close attention to the novels of Flaubert, Wells, Conrad, and Joyce, Against the Event relates this aspect of modernity to modernist and proto-modernist problems of narrative form, in particular the banalizing effects of genre, the threatening necessity of closure, and the obsolescence of the coherent narrator. In doing so, Against the Event is also an intervention into one of the pressing philosophical and theoretical issues of our time, that of the nature of the 'event.'

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Sayeau is Lecturer of English at University College London.


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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199681252
ISBN 13 
9780199681259
Reliure
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
274
Coordonnées du fabricant
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