Evolutions of Modernist Epic

Explores how modernist national narrative successively reimagined the evolutionary epic from the 1910s to the 1930s.

List of contents

• Introduction: By the Light of the Eclipse


• 1: Beginning Again with Modernist Epic: Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans


• 2: Joyce's Atavism and the New Ireland


• 3: Survival of the Unfittest on the Eastern Front: The Good Soldier %Svejk


• 4: Comparing Tales of the Tribe: Macunaíma and Orlando


• Afterword: Beyond the Eclipse

About the author

Václav Paris is an Assistant Professor at the City College of New York, where he teaches courses on Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Global Modernism. His research focuses on the intersections between science and modernist literature around the world. Dr Paris's work has appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, the Journal of Modern Literature, Modernism/modernity, the James Joyce Quarterly, the Arizona Quarterly, and English Literature in Transition. Dr Paris is also a passionate student of languages and a translator. His translation of Zdenek Kratochvíl's The Philosophy of Living Nature, was published by Karolínum in November 2016.

Summary

Explores how modernist national narrative successively reimagined the evolutionary epic from the 1910s to the 1930s.

Additional text

There is a glee in reading something that opens possible ways forward, rather than suggesting one definitive path.

Product details

• Authors: Václav Paris, Vaclav (Assistant Professor of English City Paris
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2021
• EAN: 9780198868217
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886821-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Epic, 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