Against the Event presents both lucid readings of key modern texts as well as an intervention into some of the most pressing contemporary philosophical and theoretical debates.
Against the Event presents both lucid readings of key modern texts as well as an intervention into some of the most pressing contemporary philosophical and theoretical debates.
Michael Sayeau is Lecturer of English at University College London.
Inhaltsangabe
* Chapter I. Introduction: In the Anteroom of the Event * What is the Everyday? * What is an Event * Literature and the Event * Anti-Evental Modernism * The Emergence of Modernist Narrative * Chapter II: 'The future was a dark corridor': Flaubert's Madame Bovary, The Everyday, and Style * 'As though in a grip of a ghastly terror' * A Book About Nothing, an Exercise in Style * The Nouveau and the Genre * Emma's Everyday * Skipping: An Aesthetics of Uneventful Existence * Homais's Cross of Honor: Flaubert and History * Chapter III: The 'Odd Consequence' of Progress: H.G. Wells's The Time Machine and the Fin de Siècle Everyday * The Catastrophic Status-Quo: Empire, Economics, and Sex at the End of the Nineteenth Century * A Universal Tendency to Dissipation: Overproduction and Heat Death * 'After the Battle Comes the Quiet': Wells's Ambivalent Modernity * 'My Story Slips Away from Me': The Narrative Impulse vs. Social Stasis * Everyday Apocalypse and the Morlocks ex Machina * Chapter IV: 'His Occupation Would Be Gone': Unemployment and Time in Conrad's Heart of Darkness * The Invention of Unemployment: Conrad's Careers * Marlow's Discourse and the Temporality of Work * The 'Helpers': The Belgian Congo, Forced Labor, and the Posthuman * Conrad's Unemployment, the Narrative Event, and Modernism * Chapter V: Joyce's Anti-Epiphanies: The Atomic Form of Fiction * The Manuscript Epiphanies of 1900-1903 * Dubliners: The Critique of Pure Epiphany * Portrait and the Temporality of Impersonality * Back to the Strand: 'Nausicaa' * Modernism, the Everyday, and Auerbach's 'Very Simple Solution' * Bibliography
* Chapter I. Introduction: In the Anteroom of the Event * What is the Everyday? * What is an Event * Literature and the Event * Anti-Evental Modernism * The Emergence of Modernist Narrative * Chapter II: 'The future was a dark corridor': Flaubert's Madame Bovary, The Everyday, and Style * 'As though in a grip of a ghastly terror' * A Book About Nothing, an Exercise in Style * The Nouveau and the Genre * Emma's Everyday * Skipping: An Aesthetics of Uneventful Existence * Homais's Cross of Honor: Flaubert and History * Chapter III: The 'Odd Consequence' of Progress: H.G. Wells's The Time Machine and the Fin de Siècle Everyday * The Catastrophic Status-Quo: Empire, Economics, and Sex at the End of the Nineteenth Century * A Universal Tendency to Dissipation: Overproduction and Heat Death * 'After the Battle Comes the Quiet': Wells's Ambivalent Modernity * 'My Story Slips Away from Me': The Narrative Impulse vs. Social Stasis * Everyday Apocalypse and the Morlocks ex Machina * Chapter IV: 'His Occupation Would Be Gone': Unemployment and Time in Conrad's Heart of Darkness * The Invention of Unemployment: Conrad's Careers * Marlow's Discourse and the Temporality of Work * The 'Helpers': The Belgian Congo, Forced Labor, and the Posthuman * Conrad's Unemployment, the Narrative Event, and Modernism * Chapter V: Joyce's Anti-Epiphanies: The Atomic Form of Fiction * The Manuscript Epiphanies of 1900-1903 * Dubliners: The Critique of Pure Epiphany * Portrait and the Temporality of Impersonality * Back to the Strand: 'Nausicaa' * Modernism, the Everyday, and Auerbach's 'Very Simple Solution' * Bibliography
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