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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"modernist literature"”.
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"Neurotic Nationalism: The ""American Disease"" in American Modernist Literature"
… with mental illness in modern American literature and culture. By bringing into dialogue two disciplines which rarely seem to speak to each other---American modernist literary criticism and the history of psychiatry---my dissertation offers scholars of American culture a new way to think …
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The Aphoristic Moment: Modernist Literature and the Quotable Self
Peter Huhne The Aphoristic Moment: Modernist Literature and the Quotable Self Abstract I want in my thesis to consider the work of four writers working in or alongside canonical Anglo-American modernism, whose writing can better be appreciated if situated within the rubric of the aphoristic. Not …
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The café in modernist literature: Wyndham Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Rhys
… functions as a lens through which I analyse modernist writers, their texts, and their aesthetic preoccupations. Each chapter can be read as a discrete study that contributes fresh analyses, new insights, and re-evaluations of familiar texts and existing scholarship. However, as a whole, the …
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The phantom of joy: Emotion, affect, and the problem of persistence in modernist literature
… Affect, and the Problem of Persistence in Modernist Literature,” investigates the potential of positive affects for physical and aesthetic persistence. I expose textual traces of joy within literary modernism and offer a perspective on affective modernism that challenges the accepted …
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The Hydra of Modern Literature
<p>Modernist Literature</p>
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Being and Literature: The Disclosure of Place in Modernity
… an original ontology of place by reading Modernist literature (1864-1950) as a critical reaction to Modern philosophy (1641-1800), and builds a platform upon movements implicit in literature from which future metaphysical and epistemological inquiries can begin. Western metaphysics and …
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"Divine warnings" : Katherine Mansfield
… recognised for her contribution to modernist literature. It further proposes that Mansfield's writing displays many of the hallmarks of modernism for which her peers - whose writing succeeded hers by several years - would later become famous.
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Lured by the Mythic: Pursuit of the Primordial in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano
… one specific way in which mythology is used in Modernist literature--especially focusing on two modern novels, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano and Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King. Drawing on studies by French anthropologist Lucien Lévy-Bruhl and on the myth-oriented philosophical texts …
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Metacognitive poetics: Modernist reflections on the performance of thinking
This dissertation demonstrates how modernist poets dramatize the dynamic, complex mental dispositions and sensibilities necessary for readers to comprehend the notorious difficultly of modernist literature and handle the maelstrom of modernity. Beginning with, perhaps, the most philosophically …
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Mind and World in Literary Modernism: Cognition and Experience in D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
… between the external and internal world that the modernists are seeking to portray? I argue that the writers depict inner life as an interaction between the mind and the external world: they are interested in how mental states arise from our perception of the world. This research looks at the …
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A Modernist Among the Victorians: The Case of Emily Brontë
… Despite allusions and references to various modernist elements in Emily Brontë’s novel and poetry, there has not been extensive analysis of her work in connection to modern writers of the early twentieth century. I believe that a multi-themed analysis of such components is necessary to …
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Animistic Fictions: German Modernism, Film, and the Animation of Things
… representations of animated objects in German modernist literature and film between roughly 1900 and 1930. Rainer Maria Rilke's 1902 remark that "all community has withdrawn from things and humans" corresponds to a more general reflection in German literary modernism on a new estrangement and …
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On the Crossroads of Science, Philosophy and Literature: Andrey Bely's "Petersburg"
… discussion of the cultural crisis, and Modernist literature in Russia and the West. My work examines the importance of those groundbreaking scientific discoveries to Andrey Bely's Modernist novel, Petersburg, which reflects both his thorough knowledge of science and his desire to find a …
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To Stage a Reading: The Actor in British Modernism
… stage became essential to the formation of modernist aesthetics. I show that the actor's significance lay not only in her cultural station but also in her subversive mediation of artistic convention and self-conscious reenactment of the past; by returning to the performers of the 1890s, …
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Exilic Vision and the Cinematic Interrogation of Britain: The Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter Collaboration
… these socio-political issues through a complex modernist film aesthetic, which challenged the classical Hollywood and British narrative film structure by bending genre conventions and archetypes in The Servant, and later fusing elements of modernist literature and Continental European art-house …
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Surprise Encounters: Readings in Transatlantic Modernism
… change at the heart of modern experience and modernist literature. SURPRISE ENCOUNTERS argues that a dominant framework of shock and rupture has obscured a nineteenth-century conception of surprise, which transformed models of mind and narrative on both sides of the Atlantic. I draw on Ralph …
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Conceptions of Hearing in German Modernist Writing
… I examine the effect of these changes upon the modernist sensorium. The contribution of this thesis is distinct from, but builds upon, scholarship that has sought to investigate the new media cultures of the early twentieth century; how sound is represented by and incorporated into literary …
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Food and Pleasure in Modern American Literature
Food and Pleasure in Modern American Literature is a study of the dynamics of pleasure in literary scenes of food, eating, and hungering in American poetry and novels from the early 20th century to the present. From infamous poetic instances of plums and memorialized moveable feasts in the early …
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LINES THAT BIND: DISABILITY’S PLACE IN THE MODERNIST WRITINGS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER, AMY LOWELL, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND EZRA POUND
… disability had on the aesthetics of American modernist writers like Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, Amy Lowell, and Ezra Pound at a time when eugenics' insistence on a superior and uniform humanity dominated social thought and how their writings complicate generalized conclusions espousing …
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