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Violence in early modernist fiction : The Secret Agent, Tarr and Women in Love / Izabela Curyo-Klag.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Curyo-Klag, I. (Izabela)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence in literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Secret agent.
- Conrad, Joseph.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Criticism and interpretation.
- Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957. Tarr.
- Lewis, Wyndham.
- Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957--Criticism and niterpretation.
- Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. Women in love.
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930--Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (126 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Krakow : Jagiellonian University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study focuses on texts exploring human proclivity to violent behaviour. Building on the anthropological insights of René Girard, and on the premise that literature is a reflection of a cultural moment, Curyłło-Klag shows how early modernism registers symptoms of crisis which even the outbreak of World War I failed to resolve. Arranged in chronological order, the works of Conrad, Lewis and Lawrence reveal an unfolding pattern and form a triptych, indicative of the growing intensity of the epoch in which they were produced.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter I. Modernist Consciousness of Crisisand the Emer gent Violence Mythos; Modernism as Sacrificial Crisis; The Secret Agent, Tarr and Women in Love; Mimetic Rivalries and Con tagion of Violence; The Violence My thos of Modernism; Review of Critic al Approaches to Violence and Modernism; Chapter II. Ticking Towards Disaster-Violenceas "The Enemy Within" in Conrad's The Secret Agent; England must be brought into line; Madness alone is truly terrifying; Blood alone puts a seal on greatness; She was not a submissiv e creature
- Simple ferocity of the age of cavernsChapter III. "All Personality Was Catching"-Mimetic Rivalryand the Con tagion of Violence in Tarr; Doomed, evidently; All in order for unbounded in flammation; A thirst for action; She had lain in wait for him; The bubonic plague; Not a duel but a brawl; Only a game, too; Chapter IV. Humanity in a Cul-de-sac: Women in Loveas an Epic of Sacrificial Crisis; An omen of universal dissolution; Mutual hellish recognition; A lurking desir e to have gizzard slit; Conclusion; Bibliography
- Notes:
- "The publication of this volume was supported by the Faculty of Philology of the Jagiellonian University".
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 83-233-8000-7
- OCLC:
- 785514742
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