Unknowing : The Work of Modernist Fiction /
Weinstein explores the modernist commitment to 'unknowling' by addressing the work of three experimental writers: Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, & William Faulkner.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Leaping: Kierkegaard's Fear and trembling.
- pt. 1. Knowings: "Sapere aude!"
- the West dares to know. Genealogy of realism: an enlightenment narrative in five stages ; Anatomy of realism: coming to know, from Defoe to Dostoevsky.
- pt. 2. Unknowing: the work of modernist fiction. Plotting modernism: Freud ; Uncanny space: Flaubert to Beckett ; Unbound time: Proust, Kafka, Faulkner ; Subject and/as other: Kafka, Proust, Faulkner.
- pt. 3. Beyond knowing: postmodern and postcolonial flights from gravity. Adventures in hyperspace ; Urban nightmare and city dreams: Rilke and Calvino ; Passage and passing: Forster and Rushdie ; Arrest and release: Faulkner, García Márquez, Morrison.
- Conclusion: Acknowledging
- modernism's weak messianic power.