Troubling Late Modernism - Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form

Discusses how modernist techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires have been reinvented by some of the most influential and innovative writers of the postwar period, including Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, John Banville, J. M. Coetzee, and Eimear McBride.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Vladimir Nabokov's Unbearable Intimacy


• 2: Samuel Beckett's Conflicted Feelings


• 3: Toni Morrison's Ethics of Attention


• 4: John Banville's Performance of Passion


• 5: J. M. Coetzee's Hidden Heart


• 6: Eimear McBride's Bodily Forms


• Conclusion

About the author

Doug Battersby is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Bristol and Stanford University. After studying at the University of Leeds, University College London, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of York, he took up a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Tokyo and then a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on the theory and history of the novel in English.

Summary

Discusses how modernist techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires have been reinvented by some of the most influential and innovative writers of the postwar period, including Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, John Banville, J. M. Coetzee, and Eimear McBride.

Additional text

[A] rich and subtle account of the dynamics between author, text and critic.

Product details

• Authors: Doug Battersby, Doug (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fel Battersby, Doug (Marie Skodowska-Curie Global Fell Battersby
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2022
• EAN: 9780192863331
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286333-1
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000