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Unnaturalism : = British Literary Naturalism Between the Wars.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,手稿 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Unnaturalism :/
其他題名:	British Literary Naturalism Between the Wars.
作者:	Wilson, Sara Curnow.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (176 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
標題:	British & Irish literature. -
電子資源:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369792799

Unnaturalism : = British Literary Naturalism Between the Wars.
Wilson, Sara Curnow.

Unnaturalism :British Literary Naturalism Between the Wars. - 1 online resource (176 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

My dissertation explores a turn in British literature back toward naturalism in the late modernist period, a literary move I call unnaturalism to refer to the way it resembles but deviates from the classic naturalist tradition of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In the 1930s, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Jean Rhys, and George Orwell separately play with the form that can best merge literature and politics. The resulting novels--- The Years (1937), Murphy (1938), Good Morning, Midnight (1939), and Coming Up for Air (1939)---might not all look like naturalism, but they share a concern with determinism and social conditions, a tendency toward extreme external detail, and an engagement with contemporary scientific and medical discourse. Socially and politically engaged, these writers work to expose the mechanics behind the 'natural' order and reveal social determinism misrepresented as biological determinism. Rather than work to disprove or deny this way of understanding the world, the novels of my study complicate all singular understandings of human development. In short, these writers recover naturalist conventions in order to expose a functional determinism that is not rooted in biology---is not, in another word, natural---but rather constructed and reconstructed by contemporary discourses.

Electronic reproduction.
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ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369792799Subjects--Topical Terms:

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British & Irish literature.
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