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Modernism, narrative, and humanism / Paul Sheehan.
Van Pelt Library PR888.M63 S54 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sheehan, Paul, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Great Britain.
- Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
- Woolf, Virginia.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
- Conrad, Joseph.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
- Beckett, Samuel.
- Humanism in literature.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Humanism.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 234 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The anthropometric turn 1
- 1 Narrating the animal, amputating the soul 24
- 2 Conrad and technology: homo ex machina 56
- 3 The Lawrentian transcendent: after the fall 87
- 4 Woolf's luminance: time out of mind 121
- 5 Doubting Beckett: voices descant, stories still 150
- Conclusion: Humanness unbound 180.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 052181457X
- OCLC:
- 49750353
- Online:
- Publisher description
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