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Modernist Life Histories : Biological Theory and The Experimental Bildungsroman /
Reflects contemporary paradigm shifts in embryology and evolutionary theory through formal experimentation in the modernist BildungsromanProvides a unique perspective on the Bildungsroman (novel of formation), one of the most discussed genres in recent scholarly work on modernismApproaches the study...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors' Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Bildung, Biology and the Narrative Structure of Development
- 2 A Portrait of the Artist as a 'Biologist in Words': Language, Epiphany and Atavistic Bildung
- 3 Mendelian Inheritance, 'Eternal Differences' and Entropy in Howards End
- 4 'Tampering with the Expected Sequence': Heterochrony and Sex Change in Orlando
- 5 Anachrony, Neoteny and the 'Education of an Amphibian' in Eyeless in Gaza
- 6 Beginning Again: Darwin's Caterpillar from George Eliot to Beckett
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index