Proust, Mann, Joyce in the modernist context [electronic resource] / Gerald Gillespie.

By: Gillespie, Gerald Ernest Paul, 1933-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2010Edition: 2nd edDescription: xiii, 375 pISBN: 9780813219271 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 -- Criticism and interpretation | Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation | Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation | European fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | European fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809.3/04 LOC classification: PN3499 | .G55 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : a stroll in the labyrinth -- Modernist moments and spaces. The space of truth and cathedral window light ; Epiphany : applicability of a modernist term ; The place of fin-de-siecle nature ; Prime coordinates in modernist cultural mappings ; Ironic realism and the foundational romance ; Cinematic narration in the modernist novel ; City of wo/man : labyrinth, wilderness, garden -- Metamorphosis, play, and the laws of life. Afterthoughts of Hamlet : Goethe's Wilhelm, Joyce's Stephen ; Educational experiment in Thomas Mann ; The music of things and the hieroglyphics of family talk in Joyce's fictions ; The ways of Hermes in the works of Thomas Mann ; Harrowing Hell with Proust, Joyce, and Mann ; The haunted narrator before the gate (Joyce, Kafka, Hesse, Butor) ; Structures of the self and narrative ; Palimpsest, essay : history, myth ; By way of conclusion : the artifice of eternity.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-365) and index.

Introduction : a stroll in the labyrinth -- Modernist moments and spaces. The space of truth and cathedral window light ; Epiphany : applicability of a modernist term ; The place of fin-de-siecle nature ; Prime coordinates in modernist cultural mappings ; Ironic realism and the foundational romance ; Cinematic narration in the modernist novel ; City of wo/man : labyrinth, wilderness, garden -- Metamorphosis, play, and the laws of life. Afterthoughts of Hamlet : Goethe's Wilhelm, Joyce's Stephen ; Educational experiment in Thomas Mann ; The music of things and the hieroglyphics of family talk in Joyce's fictions ; The ways of Hermes in the works of Thomas Mann ; Harrowing Hell with Proust, Joyce, and Mann ; The haunted narrator before the gate (Joyce, Kafka, Hesse, Butor) ; Structures of the self and narrative ; Palimpsest, essay : history, myth ; By way of conclusion : the artifice of eternity.

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