Title: Machinic modernism
First published: 2008
Description: "The book reveals the rich 'metaphysics' of modernist literature through a Deleuzian and Guattarian lens, using their radical philosophical concepts to revisit key texts, including Woolf's To the Lighthouse and The Waves, Lawrence's The Rainbow, and Joyce's Ulysses. The philosophy allows Monaco to draw an immanent map of the modernist literature that reviews the charged and complex political and aesthetic territory of modernism and its confrontation with the machine age in terms of the dazzling array of pragmatic effects or 'machines' in the texts. This is a lively, cutting-edge intersection of philosophy and literature that suggests that the critical text must itself become a 'machine': a pragmatic, and not merely interpretive, agent."--Jacket.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Influence, Modernism (Literature), English literature, History and criticism, Deleuze, gilles, 1925-1995, Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941, Lawrence, d. h. (david herbert), 1885-1930, Joyce, james, 1882-1941, English literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Modernism (literature)
Places: Great Britain
People: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), James Joyce (1882-1941)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR478.M6 M66 2008