Modernist Impersonalities [electronic resource] : Affect, Authority, and the Subject /
Rives, R.author.
Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality.
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Cover; Modernist Impersonalities: Affect, Authority, and the Subject; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modernism and the "Escape from Personality"; Space and the "New Psychology"; T. S. Eliot and Poetic Emotion; Beside and Beyond: Engaged Modernism; Chapter 1: "The Dissociation of Personality": Space and the Impersonal Ideal; The Failures of Personality; Wyndham Lewis versus Oscar Wilde: Personality and the "Male-Invert Fashion"; An "Arrangement of Surfaces": Modernism and Prosthesis; Virginia Woolf and Impersonal Spatial Practice
Chapter 2: The Impersonal Contract: H.D. and the Limits of Poetic AuthorityA Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose: Impersonality and Poetic Insecurity; Contractually Speaking: H.D.'s Poetics of Masochism; Fragmentary Sameness and the Problem of Difference; Authoritative Exchange and the Vulnerability of Form; Conclusion: Interior Dimensions; Chapter 3: A "Peculiar Feeling of Intimacy": D. H. Lawrence, Modernist Violence, and Impersonal Narrative; "A New Non-Personal Activity"; Violence, Depersonalization, and Modernity; Lawrence, Impersonality, and Psychoanalysis; Work, or "the Actual Doing of Something"
The "Bodily Me": Interiority, Exteriority, and the Defeat of MeaningViolence and the "Lapse into Temporality"; Chapter 4: Problem Space: Wyndham Lewis, Mary Butts, and the Impersonal Object; The Phenomenology of the Bedroom: Feng Shui or Wallpaper?; The Disease of Impersonality; Bloomsbury, or "Intelligentsia in Excelsis"; (Im)personal Hygien; Conclusion: Object Lessons; Chapter 5: A "Solicitude for Things: "Elizabeth Bowen and the Bildungsroman; Personality and the Bildungsroman; "Living," or Feeling; Hotel Habits, or the "Lengths" of Possession; "Things Hidden in a Corner""
Conclusion: Emotion after The Death of the HeartNotes; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality.
America-Literatures.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
British literature.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Aesthetics.