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Modernism, narrative, and humanism /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Modernism, narrative, and humanism // Paul Sheehan.
remainder title:	Modernism, Narrative & Humanism
Author:	Sheehan, Paul,
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English fiction - History and criticism. - 20th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485305
ISBN:	9780511485305 (ebook)

Modernism, narrative, and humanism /
Sheehan, Paul,1960-

Modernism, narrative, and humanism /Modernism, Narrative & HumanismPaul Sheehan. - 1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction: The anthropometric turn --

In Modernism, Narrative and Humanism, Paul Sheehan attempts to redefine modernist narrative for the twenty-first century. For Sheehan modernism presents a major form of critique of the fundamental presumptions of humanism. By pairing key modernist writers with philosophical critics of the humanist tradition, he shows how modernists sought to discover humanism's inhuman potential. He examines the development of narrative during the modernist period and sets it against, among others, the nineteenth-century philosophical writings of Schopenhauer , Darwin and Nietzsche. Focusing on the major novels and poetics of Conrad, Lawrence, Woolf and Beckett, Sheehan investigates these writers' mistrust of humanist orthodoxy and their consequent transformations and disfigurations of narrative order. He reveals the crucial link between the modernist novel's narrative concerns and its philosophical orientation in a book that will be of compelling interest to scholars of modernism and literary theory.

ISBN: 9780511485305 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

879037
Lawrence, D. H.
1885-1930--Handbooks, manuals, etc.Subjects--Topical Terms:

559954
English fiction
--History and criticism.--20th century

LC Class. No.: PR888.M63 / S54 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.9109112

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