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Tragedy and the Modernist Novel de Manya Lempert

Tragedy and the Modernist Novel

Autor Manya Lempert
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 sep 2020
This study of tragic fiction in European modernism brings together novelists who espoused, in their view, a Greek vision of tragedy and a Darwinian vision of nature. To their minds, both tragedy and natural history disclosed unwarranted suffering at the center of life. Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus, and Samuel Beckett broke with entrenched philosophical and scientific traditions that sought to exclude chance, undeserved pains from tragedy and evolutionary biology. Tragedy and the Modernist Novel uncovers a temporality central to tragic novels' structure and ethics: that of the moment. These authors made novelistic plot the delivery system for lethal natural and historical forces, and then countered such plot with moments of protest - characters' fleeting dissent against unjustifiable harms.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108496025
ISBN-10: 1108496024
Pagini: 290
Dimensiuni: 160 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. Introduction: modernist tragedy; 1.1 Attic novelists; 1.2 Tragedy versus philosophy; 1.3 Tragic nature; 1.4 Modernism versus nihilism; 1.5 Tragic sociality and overview of chapters; 2. Hardy's theory of tragic character; 2.1 Neo-Greek modernism; 2.2 Hardy versus Plato and Aristotle; 2.3 Two Tesses; 2.4 Sue's reversals; 2.5 Scapegoating; 2.6 Nightmare skies; 3. Woolf and Darwin: tragic time scales and chances; 3.1 Immitigable trees; 3.2 Darwinian Tuchē; 3.3 Jane Ellen Harrison's ritual; 3.4 Gilbert Murray's tragedy; 3.5 Friedrich Nietzsche's love of fate; 3.6 Not 'Amor fati' but 'It is enough!'; 3.7 Woolf's tragic chances; 4. Camus's modernist forms and the ethics of tragedy; 4.1 Camus's idea of tragedy; 4.2 The moment in Camus and Woolf; 4.3 Camus versus Sartre; 4.4 Janine: a moment of being; 4.5 Jacques and Jessica: tragic affirmation; 4.6 The absurd Meursault; 4.7 The 'good modern nihilist' Clamence; 5. Beckett: against nihilism; 5.1 The unnamable: 'alleviations of flight from self'; 5.2 Losing species: from Mahood to worm; 5.3 Beckett's Oedipus and Lispector's mystic; 5.4 Nihilism and recoil from nihilism; 5.5 Beckett's ancient philosophy; 5.6 No counter-tragic calm; 5.7 Company: 'That was I. That was I then.'; 5.8 Palliative moments; Bibliography; Index.

Recenzii

'This is an extraordinarily erudite book about literary modernism and the relationship between it and the history and theory of tragedy. Lempert's overall discussion of Greek tragedy is absolutely riveting and her close-reading of form is extraordinarily sensitive. Lempert has produced an extraordinarily bold argument that is likely to attract a great deal of attention not only from modernist scholars but from others further afield.' Ato Quayson, Stanford University, California
'The themes of this book could hardly be more resonant and enduringly relevant to modernist literary studies. This book pits tragedy and modern writing against nihilism – a way of renouncing or not caring about existence – finding a way for moments of light to counter total eclipse of meaning without callow resolution or pat consolation.' Ronan McDonald, University of Melbourne
'… Lempert's book is an important contribution to the study of modernism … Recommended.' A. P. Pennino, Choice

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Descriere

This book brings together the study of modern fiction, tragedy, chance, and the natural world.