Heralds of the postmodern
Subtitle: madness and fiction in Conrad, Woolf, and Lessing
By: Yuan-Jung Cheng.
Series: Studies in literary criticism and theory, 4
Publisher: Peter Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.; Lessing, Doris May, 1919-; Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Literature and mental illness -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.; Mental illness in literature.; Mentally ill in literature.
Description: "Heralds of the Postmodern inquires into the possibility of a poetics of madness in Heart of Darkness, Mrs. Dalloway, and The Golden Notebook. By relating the literary expression of the irrational in these works to the philosophical attempt to overcome the subject and rationality in the writings of Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida, the book presents modern fiction as an arena in which struggles between reason and madness, limitation and transgression, "self" and "the other" are fully displayed.

It investigates how modern literature subverts traditional metaphysics by exploring the realm of the other reason and the new forms of subjectivity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [101]-118) and index.