Machinic Modernism - The Deleuzian Literary Machines of Woolf, Lawrence and Joyce

Informationen zum Autor BEA MONACO has lived and researched in three different continents, and gained her PhD from the University of London, UK, where she now teaches. Klappentext How can the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari be used to unearth the 'metaphysics' of modernist literature? This intersection of philosophy and key literary works uses their radical concepts to draw a dynamic map of modernism that explores the confrontation of each writer with the non-human machine age of the early twentieth-century. Zusammenfassung How can the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari be used to unearth the 'metaphysics' of modernist literature? This intersection of philosophy and key literary works uses their radical concepts to draw a dynamic map of modernism that explores the confrontation of each writer with the non-human machine age of the early twentieth-century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Towards a Literary Critical Machine The Spatiotemporality of To the Lighthouse The Visceral-Materiality of The Rainbow Ulysses : The Hyperconscious Machinic Text Ideas and Life in Conflict: Lawrence's Later Works Orlando and The Waves : Machinic Triumph of Form Conclusion Notes Index

List of contents

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Towards a Literary Critical Machine The Spatiotemporality of To the Lighthouse The Visceral-Materiality of The Rainbow Ulysses : The Hyperconscious Machinic Text Ideas and Life in Conflict: Lawrence's Later Works Orlando and The Waves : Machinic Triumph of Form Conclusion Notes Index

About the author

BEA MONACO has lived and researched in three different continents, and gained her PhD from the University of London, UK, where she now teaches.

Product details

• Authors: B Monaco, B. Monaco, Beatrice Monaco
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.10.2008
• EAN: 9780230219366
• ISBN: 978-0-230-21936-6
• No. of pages: 229
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Cultural Studies, Fiction, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Literature: history & criticism, Philosophische Traditionen und Denkschulen, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Modern Philosophy, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Early Modern Philosophy