Prosaic desires : modernist knowing, boredom, laughter and anticipation / Sara Crangle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crangle, Sara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desire in literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction this book poses a direct challenge to psychoanalytic criticism that characterises desire as sexual or powerful in nature. Using continental philosophy as its framework it contends that human longings are as endless in kind as they are in manifestation.

Contents:

Dying to know. Knowledge and aesthetics ; Epiphanic dead-ends : Joyce and Woolf ; Stephen Dedalus and Schopenhauer ; Parodic resurrection : epiphanies in Ulysses ; Stephen and Nietzche ; Bloom and Levinas ; Conclusions

Haunted by boredom. Gauging boredom ; The time being ; Woolf's boredoms ; Orlando's regenerative Oak ; "The lady in the looking-glass ; Conclusions

Inclining towards laughter. Modernist laughter ; Stein Regales ; Q.E.D. and solitary responsibility ; A Long gay book and shared laughter ; Two and infinite levity ; Conclusions

In the meantime. War, angst, and patience ; Between the acts : not now ; Mrs. Reynolds : not yet ; Conclusions

Conclusion : endlessnessnessness.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5195-0

1-282-74992-7

9786612749926

0-7486-4286-2

OCLC:

664800194