Thinking in Literature: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov - Couverture souple

Uhlmann, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1441140565 ISBN 13 : 9781441140562

Editeur : Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Uhlmann Anthony

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Thinking in Literature sets out to examine how the Modernist novel might be understood to be a machine for thinking, and further how it might offer means of coming to terms with what it means to think. It begins with a theoretical analysis of the concept of thinking in literature using Gilles Deleuze as a point of departure and returning directly to the work of the two philosophers who were most important to Deleuze's understanding of thinking in literature: Spinoza and Leibniz. Three elements are identified as crucial to aesthetic expression: relation; sensation; and composition. Yet in order to build a fuller understanding of these processes it is necessary to move from theory to specific readings of artistic practice. Uhlmann examines the aesthetic practice of three major Modernist writers: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and the young Vladimir Nabokov. Each can be understood as working with relation, sensation and composition, yet each emphasize the interrelations between them in differing ways in expressing the potentials for thinking in literature.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Anthony Uhlmann is Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of Beckett and Poststructuralism (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Thinking in Literature (Bloomsbury, 2011). From 2008-2013 he edited the Journal of Beckett Studies.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1441140565
• ISBN 13: 9781441140562
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176