Modernism and Cosmology [electronic resource] : Absurd Lights /
Ebury, K.author.
Through examining the work of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett, Katherine Ebury shows cosmology had a considerable impact on modernist creative strategies, developing alternative reading models of difficult texts such as Finnegans Wake and 'The Trilogy'.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Cosmic Modernism; 2 Yeatsian Cosmology; 3 Joycean Cosmologies; 4 Beyond the Rainbow: Spectroscopy in the Wake; 5 The Beckettian Cosmos; 6 Stars and Atoms in ''The Trilogy''; Epilogue: International Modernism; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Through examining the work of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett, Katherine Ebury shows cosmology had a considerable impact on modernist creative strategies, developing alternative reading models of difficult texts such as Finnegans Wake and 'The Trilogy'.
British literature.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Astronomy.
Astrophysics.
Cosmology.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.
Cosmology.