UID:
edocfu_9960119808702883
Format:
1 online resource (126 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
83-233-8000-7
Content:
This study focuses on texts exploring human proclivity to violent behaviour. Building on the anthropological insights of René Girard, and on the premise that literature is a reflection of a cultural moment, Curyłło-Klag shows how early modernism registers symptoms of crisis which even the outbreak of World War I failed to resolve. Arranged in chronological order, the works of Conrad, Lewis and Lawrence reveal an unfolding pattern and form a triptych, indicative of the growing intensity of the epoch in which they were produced.
Note:
"The publication of this volume was supported by the Faculty of Philology of the Jagiellonian University".
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter I. Modernist Consciousness of Crisisand the Emer gent Violence Mythos; Modernism as Sacrificial Crisis; The Secret Agent, Tarr and Women in Love; Mimetic Rivalries and Con tagion of Violence; The Violence My thos of Modernism; Review of Critic al Approaches to Violence and Modernism; Chapter II. Ticking Towards Disaster-Violenceas "The Enemy Within" in Conrad's The Secret Agent; England must be brought into line; Madness alone is truly terrifying; Blood alone puts a seal on greatness; She was not a submissiv e creature
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Simple ferocity of the age of cavernsChapter III. "All Personality Was Catching"-Mimetic Rivalryand the Con tagion of Violence in Tarr; Doomed, evidently; All in order for unbounded in flammation; A thirst for action; She had lain in wait for him; The bubonic plague; Not a duel but a brawl; Only a game, too; Chapter IV. Humanity in a Cul-de-sac: Women in Loveas an Epic of Sacrificial Crisis; An omen of universal dissolution; Mutual hellish recognition; A lurking desir e to have gizzard slit; Conclusion; Bibliography
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 83-233-3232-0
Language:
English
