Michael Sayeau

Against the Event (eBook, PDF)

The Everyday and Evolution of Modernist Narrative

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Produktbeschreibung

Against the Event: The Everyday and the Evolution of Modernist Narrative investigates how a modernity famed for temporal acceleration - from Benjamin's 'shock' and 'distraction' to the postmodern loss of historical consciousness diagnosed by Jameson - generated fictions defined, strangely enough, not just by the 'new' but just as forcefully by everyday depletions of stasis and repetition, a flood of sameness in modern life. With close attention to the novels of Flaubert, Wells, Conrad, and Joyce, Against the Event relates this aspect of modernity to modernist and proto-modernist problems of narrative form, in particular the banalizing effects of genre, the threatening necessity of closure, and the obsolescence of the coherent narrator. In doing so, Against the Event is also an intervention into one of the pressing philosophical and theoretical issues of our time, that of the nature of the 'event.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191503313
• Artikelnr.: 39454195

Autorenporträt

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