Format:
XIII, 375 S.
Edition:
2. ed.
ISBN:
9780813217888
,
0813213509
Content:
Introduction : a stroll in the labyrinth -- Modernist moments and spaces. The space of truth and cathedral window light ; Epiphany : applicability of a modernist term ; The place of fin-de-siècle nature ; Prime coordinates in modernist cultural mappings ; Ironic realism and the foundational romance ; Cinematic narration in the modernist novel ; City of wo/man : labyrinth, wilderness, garden -- Metamorphosis, play, and the laws of life. Afterthoughts of Hamlet : Goethe's Wilhelm, Joyce's Stephen ; Educational experiment in Thomas Mann ; The music of things and the hieroglyphics of family talk in Joyce's fictions ; The ways of Hermes in the works of Thomas Mann ; Harrowing Hell with Proust, Joyce, and Mann ; The haunted narrator before the gate (Joyce, Kafka, Hesse, Butor) ; Structures of the self and narrative ; Palimpsest, essay : history, myth ; By way of conclusion : the artifice of eternity
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
The spaces of truth and cathedral window light -- Epiphany: applicability of a modernist term -- The place of fin-de-sicle nature -- Prime coordinates in modernist cultural mappings -- Ironic realism and the foundational romance -- Cinematic narration in the modernist novel -- City of wo/man: labyrinth, wilderness, garden -- Afterthoughts of Hamlet: Goethe's Wilhelm, Joyce's Stephen -- Educational experiment in Thomas Mann -- The music of things and the hieroglyphics of family talk in Joyce's fictions -- The ways of Hermes in the works of Thomas Mann -- Harrowing hell with Proust, Joyce, and Mann -- The haunted narrator before the gate (Joyce, Kafka, Hesse, Butor) -- Structures of the self and narrative
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Proust, Marcel 1871-1922
;
Moderne
;
Mann, Thomas 1875-1955
;
Moderne
;
Joyce, James 1882-1941
;
Moderne
;
Proust, Marcel 1871-1922 À la recherche du temps perdu
;
Mann, Thomas 1875-1955 Der Zauberberg
;
Joyce, James 1882-1941 Ulysses
Author information:
Gillespie, Gerald Ernest Paul 1933-
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