Author Description
Introduction Modernist Liabilities -- 1 Vladimir Nabokov's Unbearable Intimacy -- 2 Samuel Beckett's Conflicted Feelings -- 3 Toni Morrison's Ethics Of Attention -- 4 John Banville's Performance Of Passion -- 5 J. M. Coetzee's Hidden Heart -- 6 Eimear Mcbride's Bodily Forms -- Conclusion Doug Battersby. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
This work investigates how late modernist novelists navigate the tension between ethical responsibility and the formal constraints of the novel. Doug Battersby, an academic scholar, examines how authors utilize specific narrative techniques to mediate the relationship between feeling and form. The text argues that these writers do not merely represent ethical dilemmas but actively perform them through the structural architecture of their prose.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Analysis of Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, John Banville, J. M. Coetzee, and Eimear McBride
- Examination of the intersection between affect theory and formalist literary criticism
- Discussion of the ethics of attention and bodily representation in late modernism
Scope Limits
- The study does not provide a comprehensive history of the entire modernist movement
- The analysis is restricted to the specific authors listed in the table of contents
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Scholars in the field of modernist studies recognize this text as a rigorous contribution to the discourse on late modernist aesthetics. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which is intended for an audience familiar with contemporary literary theory and philosophy.
Page Count:
0
Publication Date:
1900-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
0192678051
ISBN-13:
9780192678058
Fiction
Literary Criticism
Modernism
Philosophy of
Literary theory
Ethics