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Incredible modernism : literature, trust and deception /

Examining the importance of trust as an influence on a wide range of European and American modernists - including James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, H.D., Ford Madox Ford, Samuel Beckett, Ralph Ellison and Wallace Stevens - this collection shows that the concept u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Attridge, John, 1976-, Rosenquist, Rod, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey [England] : Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Reading and trust
  • Modern proliferation, modernist trust/ Leonard Diepeveen
  • Trusting personality: modernist memoir and its audience/ Rod Rosenquist
  • Credulous readers: H.D. and psychic-research work/ Suzanne Hobson
  • pt. 2. After sincerity
  • Subterranean folkway blues: Ralph Ellison's mythology of deception/ Paul Sheehan
  • Counterfeit masterpieces: Gide, Joyce and intertextual deception/ Scarlett Baron
  • False bottoms: Wyndham Lewis's the revenge for love and the incredible real/ Paul Edwards
  • pt. 3. Truth and narrative
  • Ford Madox Ford, impressionism and trust in the good soldier/ Max Saunders
  • Malone lies: veracity and morality in Malone dies/ Samuel Cross
  • What I may or may not have done in the war: truth, genre and the war books controversy/ Jessica Weare
  • pt. 4. Trust and society
  • The trust and the mistrust: Ezra Pound in Italy/ Sean Pryor
  • Wallace Stevens's "drastic community": credit, suretyship and the society of distrust/ Jason Puskar
  • Episodic trust: self, society and sociology in a La recherche du temps perdu/ John Attridge
  • Afterword: autoimmunity, trust and value/ Rod Rosenquist.