Modernism and the Fate of Individuality - Character and Novelistic Form From Conrad to Woolf

Zusammenfassung Michael Levenson explores here the complex question of the self! the individual subject! as it undergoes various transitions throughout the period we designate 'modernist'. The book is structured around a sophisticated reading of eight major novels by Conrad! James! Forster! Madox Ford! Lewis! Lawrence! Joyce and Woolf. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Two cultures and an individual: Conrad's Heart of Darkness and James's The Ambassadors; 2. Liberalism and symbolism in Howards End; 3. Justification, passion, freedom: Character in The Good Soldier; 4. Form's body: Lewis's Tarr; 5. 'The passion of opposition' in Women in Love: none, one, two, few, many; 6. From the epic To the Lighthouse.

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• Authors: Michael Levenson, Michael (University of Virginia) Levenson, Michael H. Levenson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.01.2005
• EAN: 9780521609449
• ISBN: 978-0-521-60944-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies