Unknowing : the work of modernist fiction /
Weinstein, Philip M.
Ithaca, N.Y. ; London : Cornell University Press,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Leaping: Kierkegaard's Fear and trembling. -- Pt.1.  Knowings: "Sapere aude!" - the West dares to know.  Genealogy of realism: an enlightenment narrative in five stages ; Anatomy of realism: coming to know, from Defoe to Dostoevsky. -- Pt.2.  Unknowing: the work of modernist fiction.  Plotting modernism: Freud ; Uncanny space: Flaubert to Beckett ; Unbound time: Proust, Kafka, Faulkner ; Subject and/as other: Kafka, Proust, Faulkner. -- Pt.3.  Beyond knowing: postmodern and postcolonial flights from gravity.  Adventures in hyperspace ; Urban nightmare and city dreams: Rilke and Calvino ; Passage and passing: Forster and Rushdie ; Arrest and release: Faulkner, García Márquez, Morrison. -- Conclusion: Acknowledging - modernism's weak messianic power.
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
Fiction
Modernism (Literature)
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.