Proust, Mann, Joyce in the modernist context
By: Gerald Gillespie
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780813217888
Subjects: European fiction; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism
Description: xiii, 375 p. ; 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-365) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a stroll in the labyrinth; title: Modernist moments and spaces. The space of truth and cathedral window light ; Epiphany : applicability of a modernist term ; The place of fin-de-siècle nature ; Prime coordinates in modernist cultural mappings ; Ironic realism and the foundational romance ; Cinematic narration in the modernist novel ; City of wo/man : labyrinth, wilderness, garden; title: Metamorphosis, play, and the laws of life. Afterthoughts of Hamlet : Goethe's Wilhelm, Joyce's Stephen ; Educational experiment in Thomas Mann ; The music of things and the hieroglyphics of family talk in Joyce's fictions ; The ways of Hermes in the works of Thomas Mann ; Harrowing Hell with Proust, Joyce, and Mann ; The haunted narrator before the gate (Joyce, Kafka, Hesse, Butor) ; Structures of the self and narrative ; Palimpsest, essay : history, myth ; By way of conclusion : the artifice of eternity.