| Description |
1 online resource (x, 241 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
1. The modern novelist as redeemer of the nation -- 2. The crisis of liberal nationalism -- 3. "His sympathies were in the right place": Conrad and the discourse of national character -- 4. Citizens of the Plain: Proust and the discourse of national will -- 5. "Il vate nazionale": D'Annunzio and the discourse of embodiment. |
| Summary |
"In Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel Pericles Lewis shows how political debates over the sources and nature of "national character" prompted radical experiments in narrative form amongst modernist writers. Though critics have accused the modern novel of shunning the external world, Lewis suggests that, far from abandoning nineteenth-century realists' concerns with politics, the modernists used this emphasis on individual consciousness to address the distinctively political ways in which the modern nation-state shapes the psyche of its subjects. Tracing this theme through Joyce, Proust, and Conrad, amongst others, Lewis claims that modern novelists gave life to a whole generation of narrators who forged new social realities in their own images. Their literary techniques - multiple narrators, transcriptions of consciousness, involuntary memory, and arcane symbolism - focused attention on the shaping of the individual by the nation and on the potential of the individual, in time of crisis, to redeem the nation."--Jacket. |
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Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Nationalism and literature -- History -- 20th century.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Nationalism in literature.
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst00923709
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Modernism (Literature) (OCoLC)fst01024455
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Nationalism and literature. (OCoLC)fst01033884
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Romans.
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Modernisme (cultuur)
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Nationalisme.
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Nationalismus.
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Literatur.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lewis, Pericles. Modernism, nationalism, and the novel. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521661110 (DLC) 99031372 (OCoLC)41338178 |
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0511008422 (electronic bk.) |
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