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Machinic modernism : the Deleuzian literary machines of Woolf, Lawrence and Joyce / Beatrice Monaco.
Van Pelt Library PR478.M6 M66 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Monaco, Beatrice, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
- Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
- Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Great Britain.
- Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995--Influence.
- Deleuze, Gilles.
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
- Woolf, Virginia.
- Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930--Criticism and interpretation.
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
- Joyce, James.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 213 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Summary:
- This book reveals the rich 'metaphysics' of modernist literature through a Deleuzian and Guattarian lens, using their radical philosophical concepts to revisit key texts, including Woolf's To the Lighthouse and The Waves, Lawrence's The Rainbow, and Joyce's Ulysses. The philosophy allows Monaco to draw an immanent map of the modernist literature that reviews the charged and complex political and aesthetic territory of modernism and its confrontation with the machine age in terms of the dazzling array of pragmatic effects or 'machines' in the texts. This is a lively, cutting-edge intersection of philosophy and literature that suggests that the critical text must itself become a 'machine': a pragmatic, and not merely interpretive, agent.
- Contents:
- 1 Towards a Literary Critical Machine 1
- Modernism, the organic-mechanical and Deleuze 4
- Deleuze-Guattarian multiplicity, univocity, and the machinic 9
- The machinic and modernism 13
- 2 The Spatiotemporality of To the Lighthouse 18
- The transcendence and immanence of Ramsay domesticity 24
- Becoming 38
- 'Time Passes': the autonomous narrative 43
- 'The Lighthouse': aesthetic autonomy 49
- 3 The Visceral-Materiality of The Rainbow 54
- The primitive metaphysic of The Rainbow 63
- Sexual and temporal rhythms 69
- The inhuman-corporeal 73
- Gender and the decline of civilisation 75
- The rise of abstraction 77
- 4 Ulysses: The Hyperconscious Machinic Text 88
- The aesthetic shift as double-action 93
- 'Telemachus': the microcosmic machine 98
- The cinematic textual machine 100
- 'Primitive' writing 104
- Bloom as capitalist subject: the cynical machine 108
- Nonsense, paradox and the imaginary 113
- 'Oxen of the Sun': the despotic machine 114
- 'Circe': the decoded imaginary 117
- 'Ithaca': the paradox of the imaginary 120
- 5 Ideas and Life in Conflict: Lawrence's Later Works 127
- Women in Love: ideas versus matter 131
- Voices of freedom and of mechanism in the later works 142
- Lady Chatterley's Lover: the deified narrative machine 147
- 6 Orlando and The Waves: Machinic Triumph of Form 154
- Orlando: haeccities and creative facts 155
- Deleuze and Guattari's cosmic aesthetic 160
- The Waves: the pure machinic of form 161
- The body of life 167
- The rhythm of space 175
- The rhythm of time 179
- The rhythm of art 183.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230219366
- 0230219365
- OCLC:
- 228676595
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