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Author Curyłło-Klag, I. (Izabela)

Title Violence in Early Modernist Fiction : the Secret Agent, Tarr and Woman in Love
Published Kraków : Jagiellonian University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (128 pages)
Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter I. Modernist Consciousness of Crisisand the Emer gent Violence Mythos; Modernism as Sacrificial Crisis; The Secret Agent, Tarr and Women in Love; Mimetic Rivalries and Con tagion of Violence; The Violence My thos of Modernism; Review of Critic al Approaches to Violence and Modernism; Chapter II. Ticking Towards Disaster-Violenceas "The Enemy Within" in Conrad's The Secret Agent; England must be brought into line; Madness alone is truly terrifying; Blood alone puts a seal on greatness; She was not a submissiv e creature
Simple ferocity of the age of cavernsChapter III. "All Personality Was Catching"-Mimetic Rivalryand the Con tagion of Violence in Tarr; Doomed, evidently; All in order for unbounded in flammation; A thirst for action; She had lain in wait for him; The bubonic plague; Not a duel but a brawl; Only a game, too; Chapter IV. Humanity in a Cul-de-sac: Women in Loveas an Epic of Sacrificial Crisis; An omen of universal dissolution; Mutual hellish recognition; A lurking desir e to have gizzard slit; Conclusion; Bibliography
Summary This study focuses on texts exploring human proclivity to violent behaviour. Building on the anthropological insights of René Girard, and on the premise that literature is a reflection of a cultural moment, Cury³³o-Klag shows how early modernism registers symptoms of crisis which even the outbreak of World War I failed to resolve. Arranged in chronological order, the works of Conrad, Lewis and Lawrence reveal an unfolding pattern and form a triptych, indicative of the growing intensity of the epoch in which they were produced
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Secret agent.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957. Tarr
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957 -- Criticism and interpretation
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. Women in love.
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 fast
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 fast
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957 fast
Secret agent (Conrad, Joseph) fast
Women in love (Lawrence, D. H.) fast
Subject Violence in literature.
Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
English fiction
Modernism (Literature)
Violence in literature
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9788323380009
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