Unmaking love
Subtitle: the contemporary novel and the impossibility of union
By: Ashley T. Shelden
Series: Literature now; Literature Now
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780231178228
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); History and criticism; Love in literature; English fiction; Intimacy (Psychology) in literature
Other titles: Contemporary novel and the impossibility of union
Description: "The author examines how the romantic conception of love has been critiqued, destroyed, and reoriented in modernist and contemporary novels"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : unmaking love; title: Lesbian fantasy : psychoanalysis, the legacy of modernist love, and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood; title: The ends of love : amorous redemption, the passion for negativity, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Hanif Kureishi's Intimacy; title: Amorous time : nostalgia, temporality, and the pursuit of optimism in Alan Hollinghurst's The line of beauty; title: Cosmopolitan love : encountering difference in Hari Kunzru's Transmission and Kazuo Ishiguro's The unconsoled; title: Conclusion : otherness, Cloud atlas, and contemporary literature.