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  1. Modernism, narrative, and humanism
    Author: Sheehan, Paul
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    In Modernism, Narrative and Humanism, Paul Sheehan attempts to redefine modernist narrative for the twenty-first century. For Sheehan modernism presents a major form of critique of the fundamental presumptions of humanism. By pairing key modernist... more

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    In Modernism, Narrative and Humanism, Paul Sheehan attempts to redefine modernist narrative for the twenty-first century. For Sheehan modernism presents a major form of critique of the fundamental presumptions of humanism. By pairing key modernist writers with philosophical critics of the humanist tradition, he shows how modernists sought to discover humanism's inhuman potential. He examines the development of narrative during the modernist period and sets it against, among others, the nineteenth-century philosophical writings of Schopenhauer , Darwin and Nietzsche. Focusing on the major novels and poetics of Conrad, Lawrence, Woolf and Beckett, Sheehan investigates these writers' mistrust of humanist orthodoxy and their consequent transformations and disfigurations of narrative order. He reveals the crucial link between the modernist novel's narrative concerns and its philosophical orientation in a book that will be of compelling interest to scholars of modernism and literary theory

     
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  2. Modernism and the Aesthetics of Violence
    Author: Sheehan, Paul
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    The notion that violence can give rise to art - and that art can serve as an agent of violence - is a dominant feature of modernist literature. In this study Paul Sheehan traces the modernist fascination with violence to the middle decades of the... more

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    The notion that violence can give rise to art - and that art can serve as an agent of violence - is a dominant feature of modernist literature. In this study Paul Sheehan traces the modernist fascination with violence to the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when certain French and English writers sought to celebrate dissident sexualities and stylized criminality. Sheehan presents a panoramic view of how the aesthetics of transgression gradually mutates into an infatuation with destruction and upheaval, identifying the First World War as the event through which the modernist aesthetic of violence crystallizes. By engaging with exemplary modernists such as Joyce, Conrad, Eliot and Pound, as well as lesser-known writers including Gautier, Sacher-Masoch, Wyndham Lewis and others, Sheehan shows how artworks, so often associated with creative well-being and communicative self-expression, can be reoriented toward violent and bellicose ends

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781139568296
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    RVK Categories: EC 5177 ; EC 5186 ; EC 5187 ; HM 1101
    Subjects: Modernism (Literature) / Great Britain; Modernism (Literature) / France; Violence in literature; Moderne; Gewalt <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource (x, 232 pages)
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    Introduction: modernism's blasted history -- Part I. Decadence Rising: The Violence of Aestheticism: 1. Revolution of the senses -- 2. Victorian sexual aesthetics -- 3. Culture, corruption, criminality -- 4. A malady of dreaming: The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Part II. Modernism's Breach: The Violence of Aesthetics: 5. Prologue: transgression displaced -- 6. No dreaming pale flowers -- 7. Modernist sexual politics -- 8. Maximum energy (like a hurricane) -- 9. Forbidden planet: Heart of Darkness -- Epilogue: traumas of the world -- Notes -- Bibliography