The Modernist party / edited by Kate McLoughlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McLoughlin, Catherine Mary, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parties.

Modernism (Literature)--Themes, motives.

Modernism (Literature).

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

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In 12 chapters internationally distinguished scholars explore the party both as a literary device and as a forum for developing modernist creative values, opening up new perspectives on materiality, the everyday and concepts of space, place and time. There are chapters on Conrad and domestic parties, T S Eliot́€™s ́€˜Prufrocḱ€™, the party vector in Joyc這s ́€˜The Dead́€™ and Finnegans Wake, Katherine Mansfield́€™s party stories, Virginia Woolf́€™s idea of a party, the textual parties of Proust, Ford Madox Ford and Aldous Huxley and the real-life parties of Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, Natalie Barney and Gertrude Stein, the black ́€˜after-partý€™ of the Harlem Renaissance and the parties in extremis in D H Lawrenc這s Women in Love. Like guests at a party, the chapters talk to and argue with each other. They contribute different approaches: formal, historical, thematic, biographical and theoretical. They address gender and sexuality, race, genre, class, sociality and privacy. And they establish critical viewpoints. The party is shown to be the site both of introspection and self-display. It provokes competition, collaboration and violence. It is an occasion of nihilism as well as a model for creative production."

Contents:

Introduction : a welcome from the host / Kate McLoughlin

'The dinner was indeed quiet' : domestic parties in the work of Joseph Conrad / Susan Jones

Prufrock, party-goer : tongue-tied at tea / Kate McLoughlin

Party Joyce : from the 'Dead' to when we 'Wake' / Jean-Michel Rabaté

'Looking at the party with you' : pivotal moments in Katherine Mansfield's party stories / Angela Smith

Virginia Woolf's idea of a party / Bryony Randall

Proustian peristalsis : parties before, during and after / David R. Ellison

'Ezra through the open door' : the parties of Natalie Barney, Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach as lesbian modernist cultural production / Joanne Winning

'Indeed everybody did come' : parties, publicity and intimacy in Gertrude Stein's plays / Alex Goody

The interracial party of modernist primitivism and the black 'after-party' / Margo Natalie Crawford

The party in extremis in D.H. Lawrence's Women in love / Margot Norris

Bohemian retrospects : Ford Madox Ford, post-war memory and the Cabaret Theatre Club / Nathan Waddell

'Pleasure too often repeated' : Aldous Huxley's modernity / Morag Shiach.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-8438-7

9780748647323

1-299-48377-1

0-7486-4732-5

OCLC:

842265955