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1 online resource (x, 219 pages) |
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Introduction: Modernism and the escape from personality -- The dissociation of personality: space and the impersonal ideal -- The impersonal contract: H.D. and the limits of poetic authority -- A peculiar feeling of intimacy: D.H. Lawrence, modernist violence -- And impersonal narrative -- Problem space: Wyndham Lewis, Mary Butts and the impersonal object -- A solicitude for things: Elizabeth Bowen and the bildungsroman -- Conclusion: Emotion after the death of the heart |
| Summary |
'Impersonality, ' the term modernists such as T.S. Eliot, H.D., Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis explicitly employed in their critiques of 'personality, ' has been defined in classic works by critics such as Maud Ellmann, Daniel Albright, and Michael Levenson. This project examines the meaning of modernist 'impersonality' as a response to the increasingly explicit prominence of the 'personality' in twentieth-century political and aesthetic culture. Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality.<br/> |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Modernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Literary studies: from c 1900 -.
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Literary theory.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Literature.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Literatur
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Englisch
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Moderne
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English-speaking countries
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137021885 |
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1137021888 |
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9781137021878 |
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113702187X |
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