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Making history new : modernism and historical narrative / Seamus O'Malley.
LIBRA PR478.M6 O63 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Malley, Seamus, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Literature)--England.
- Modernism (Literature).
- England.
- Historical fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Historical fiction, English.
- Narration (Rhetoric)--History--20th century.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 271 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Introduction I Know God, I Know My Heart: The Presuppositions of Nineteenth-Century History 11
- Ellipses in Modernist Narratology 17
- James and Conrad's Senses of the Past 22
- Ford and the "Devil of Theorizing" 27
- The Myths of High Modernism: Eliot, Pound, Lewis 33
- Paul Ricoeur's Narratology of History 40
- 1 Joseph Conrad and the Necessity of History in Nostromo 48
- "In the Thick of History" 51
- The Necessary Failure of History 55
- The Miracle of Histories 63
- Vanishing Traces: Under Western Eyes 67
- Nostromo and the Historical Novel 68
- 2 Rewriting and Repetition in The Good Soldier 71
- The Unity of Style 71
- Avoidance and Repetition 74
- His-story (Dowell's That Is) 80
- Revisionary Fictions 84
- Repetition and the Field of History 88
- 3 Returning, Remembering, and Forgetting in The Return of the Soldier 92
- West's Modernist Pastoral 92
- History Through the Pastoral 102
- History and Forgetting 109
- 4 The Rememoration of Some Do Not... (Parade's End, Volume 1) 118
- No Enemy and the Wartime Failure of Impressionism 118
- Some Do Not...: Ford's Rewriting of West's Pastoral 123
- Modernism and the "Memory Crisis" 129
- Amnesia and the Severance of Social Identity 134
- "Epic Forgetting": The Necessity of History, the Necessity of Forgetting 138
- 5 The Impossible Necessity of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon 147
- West's Historical Novel 147
- Memory and Forgetting 151
- History's Impossibilities 154
- Nonsense and Supersense 156
- Modernism at War 161
- The Horror of History 170
- History's Strange Necessities 177.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199364237
- 0199364230
- OCLC:
- 882738708
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