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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Modernism (Literature)"”.
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The Oulipo and Modernism: Literature, Craft and Mathematical Form
… in other words, that they pursue an alternative modernism. I argue that the Oulipo’s use of arbitrary rigidified logical structures in literary composition is categorially alien to the latter’s concept, and thus that it forms a kind of resistant material which must be worked with. This model of …
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Modernism, Responsibility, and the Novel
… to narrative fragmentation, I claim that reading modernism in terms of responsibility yields an uncommon yet critical understanding of its practitioners as deeply invested in ethical problems related to representation. I argue that in the context of British modernism, particularly in the decade …
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MATERIAL MEDIATION: WOMEN, CONNECTION, AND VITAL MATERIALISM IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S MRS DALLOWAY, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, AND BETWEEN THE ACTS
Theories of materiality have long attempted to explain the importance of the nonhuman and to disrupt anthropocentric thinking. Recently, these theories have informed ecocritical approaches to literary analysis, including the works of Virginia Woolf, exploring the ways in which she portrays the …
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Between word and meaning : wit, modernism, and perverse narrative
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of English, 2010
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The Outward Turn: Personality, Blankness, and Allure in American Modernism
The history of personality in American literature has surprisingly little to do with the differentiating individuality we now tend to associate with the term. Scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American culture have defined personality either as the morally vacuous successor to the …
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Silence, Power, and Mexicans in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark
… and immigrants were largely ignored in American literature, or deliberately overlooked. When they were included, persistent demeaning views and unflattering Mexican stereotypes were the norm. This paper seeks to explain how positively Cather depicts Mexican characters, decades before Civil …
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To Stage a Reading: The Actor in British Modernism
… of the later avant-garde stage and of literary modernism. My dissertation, by contrast, argues that one element of the nineteenth-century stage survived and claimed a place at the heart of British modernism: the idea of the actor. In successive chapters stretching from 1897 to 1958, I take up …