Title Machinic modernism : the Deleuzian literary machines of Woolf, Lawrence and Joyce / Beatrice Monaco

Published Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 213 pages) Contents Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Towards a Literary Critical Machine -- The Spatiotemporality of To the Lighthouse -- The Visceral-Materiality of The Rainbow -- Ulysses: The Hyperconscious Machinic Text -- Ideas and Life in Conflict: Lawrence₂s Later Works -- Orlando and The Waves: Machinic Triumph of Form -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index Summary This book reveals the rich 'metaphysics' of modernist literature through a Deleuzian and Guattarian lens, using their radical philosophical concepts to revisit key texts, including Woolf's To the Lighthouse and The Waves, Lawrence's The Rainbow, and Joyce's Ulysses. The philosophy allows Monaco to draw an immanent map of the modernist literature that reviews the charged and complex political and aesthetic territory of modernism and its confrontation with the machine age in terms of the dazzling array of pragmatic effects or 'machines' in the texts. This is a lively, cutting-edge intersection of philosophy and literature that suggests that the critical text must itself become a 'machine': a pragmatic, and not merely interpretive, agent Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index Notes Print version record Subject Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 -- Influence Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 -- Criticism and interpretation Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 fast Joyce, James, 1882-1941 fast Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 fast Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast Subject English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Modernism (Literature) Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230228320 0230228321

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