Henri Bergson and British modernism / Mary Ann Gillies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gillies, Mary Ann, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941--Influence.

Bergson, Henri.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

212 p. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on the work of T.E. Hulme, the Men of 1914, the Bloomsbury Group, T.S. Eliot, and John Middleton Murry, Gillies convincingly demonstrates that Bergson's theories underlie the literary aesthetics of the period that forms the intellectual basis of modern literature. She then turns her critical eye to five major modernist writers - T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, and Joseph Conrad - and provides insightful and detailed Bergsonian readings of their major works. Drawing on material not previously available, Gillies persuasively argues that Bergson was a major intellectual force in British literature during the first thirty years of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Henri Bergson: Antecedents, Philosophy, and Context

Bergson and British Culture

Charting Bergson's Theories of a Modernist Aesthetics

T.S. Eliot: The Poet

Virginia Woolf: Bergsonian Experiments in Representation and Consciousness

James Joyce: Fiction as the Flux of Experience

Dorothy Richardson: The Subjective Experience of Time

Joseph Conrad: Bergsonian Ideas of Memory and Comedy

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85405-4

9786612854057

0-7735-6613-9

OCLC:

929121099