Modernist Short Fiction and Things: Material Modernisms
Autor Aimée Gasstonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 aug 2022
Conceiving of their short fiction as intrinsically radical and experimental even within a wider context of modernist innovation, this book shows how these important women writers brought quotidian objects to riotous life, in such a way that tasked readers with reevaluating their everyday existence. Overall, Modernist Short Fiction and Things argues that short fiction epitomises modernist aesthetics, functioning as a resonant source for investigation and complementing and expanding our understanding of modernist epistemology.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783030785468
ISBN-10: 3030785467
Ilustrații: XIV, 227 p. 12 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Material Modernisms
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3030785467
Ilustrații: XIV, 227 p. 12 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Material Modernisms
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Cuprins
Introduction.- Chapter 1: Virginia Woolf’s Armchair Aesthetics.- Chapter 2: Katherine Mansfield and the Story-as-Snack.- Chapter 3: Elizabeth Bowen and Eccentric Accessories.- Conclusion: Stories and their Objects, Reading and Being.
Notă biografică
Aimée Gasston is a Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Recipient of a Harry Ransom Fellowship and the fourth Katherine Mansfield Essay Prize, she co-edited Katherine Mansfield: New Directions (2020) and is Vice-Chair of the Elizabeth Bowen Society.
Textul de pe ultima copertă
This book reappraises the philosophical value of short fiction by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen, examining the stories through the lens of specific everyday objects. Looking at Woolf and armchairs, Mansfield and snack food, and Bowen and fashion accessories, it probes the aesthetic resonance between these stories’ form and contents and also considers the modes of thinking they might promote.
Conceiving of their short fiction as intrinsically radical and experimental even within a wider context of modernist innovation, this book shows how these important women writers brought quotidian objects to riotous life, in such a way that tasked readers with reevaluating their everyday existence. Overall, Modernist Short Fiction and Things argues that short fiction epitomises modernist aesthetics, functioning as a resonant source for investigation and complementing and expanding our understanding of modernist epistemology.
'It offers a suggestive analysis of the ways in which three modernist writers mobilise the thing-like quality of the short story form for an exploration of the uncanniness of the object world. The close readings of Woolf, Mansfield and Bowen are inventive, thoughtful and perceptive.’
- Clare Hanson, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Southampton, UK
- Clare Hanson, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Southampton, UK
Caracteristici
Contributes to our understanding of twentieth century women’s writing in the short story form, a genre which is often conceived of as frivolous or underdeveloped but which acts as a vehicle of philosophical thought Provides an original and illuminating reading of an important but undervalued body of modernist literature Explores a genuine phenomenon - the strange use of objects in women’s modernist short fiction and teases out its significance, moving from the micro to the macro level in terms of cultural and philosophical analysis