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Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Horizons anglophones,
- Horizons anglophones,.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- British literature.
- Poetry, Modern--20th century.
- Poetry, Modern.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Literary studies: general.
- Social sciences.
- Humanities.
- Great Britain.
- Local Subjects:
- Literary studies: general.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations ; digital file (PDF)
- Place of Publication:
- Montpellier Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée 2010
- Montpellier : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2010
- Language Note:
- Text is in English
- Summary:
- This collection of essays means to explore the interaction between autonomy and commitment in an attempt at revisiting and possibly, revising conventional literary history. Until recently, literary history has indeed tended to present twentieth century British literature as either autonomous or committed, but such a position certainly needs qualification. By addressing the joint issues of autonomy and commitment and basing their arguments on such theoretical writings as those of Adorno, Benjamin, Jameson, Rancière or Attridge, the essays presented here come to question the canonical definitions of modernism as experimental literature, the literature of the 1940s and 1950s as committed and post-modern fiction as self-reflexive and autonomous. Through reflections on experimentation and ideology, narcissism and metafiction, aestheticism and militancy, abstraction and ethical involvement, they flesh out the very definitions of autonomy and commitment, confront the two notions and relentlessly test their interaction, thus bringing out the complexities and subtleties of the various moments and movements that make up the literary landscape of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.
- ISBN:
- 2-36781-409-0
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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