Doug Battersby

Troubling Late Modernism

Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form

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Produktbeschreibung

Discusses how modernist techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires have been reinvented by some of the most influential and innovative writers of the postwar period, including Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, John Banville, J. M. Coetzee, and Eimear McBride.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Saunders College Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780192863331
• ISBN-10: 0192863339
• Artikelnr.: 66136552

Autorenporträt

Doug Battersby is a Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Bristol and Stanford University. After studying at the University of Leeds, University College London, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of York, he took up a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Tokyo and then a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on the theory and history of the novel in English.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Vladimir Nabokov's Unbearable Intimacy
2: Samuel Beckett's Conflicted Feelings
3: Toni Morrison's Ethics of Attention
4: John Banville's Performance of Passion
5: J. M. Coetzee's Hidden Heart
6: Eimear McBride's Bodily Forms
Conclusion