The Modernist Party

ISBN-13: 9781474401418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 240 str.

Kate McLoughlin

Opis

Leading international scholars illuminate the party's significance in Modernism
In 12 chapters internationally distinguished scholars explore the party both as a literary device and as a forum for developing modernist creative values, opening up new perspectives on materiality, the everyday and concepts of space, place and time. There are chapters on Conrad and domestic parties, T S Eliot's 'Prufrock', the party vector in Joyce's 'The Dead' and Finnegans Wake, Katherine Mansfield's party stories, Virginia Woolf's idea of a party, the textual parties of Proust, Ford Madox Ford and Aldous Huxley and the real-life parties of Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, Natalie Barney and Gertrude Stein, the black 'after-party' of the Harlem Renaissance and the parties in extremis in D H Lawrence's Women in Love.
Like guests at a party, the chapters talk to and argue with each other. They contribute different approaches: formal, historical, thematic, biographical and theoretical. They address gender and sexuality, race, genre, class, sociality and privacy. And they establish critical viewpoints. The party is shown to be the site both of introspection and self-display. It provokes competition, collaboration and violence. It is an occasion of nihilism as well as a model for creative production.
Key Features:
Develops the concept of space, currently of central concern to Modernist scholars
Explores the tensions between Modernism as an aesthetics of intensity and Modernism as a movement of the everyday
Adds a new and vital area of research to investigations of Modernism as the product of intellectual and social networks

Spis treści

A Note of Thanks; The Guest-List; Introduction: A Welcome from the Host, Kate McLoughlin; ‘It was indeed a quiet dinner’: Domestic Parties in the Work of Joseph Conrad, Susan Jones; Prufrock, Party-Goer: Tongue-Tied at Tea, Kate McLoughlin; Party Joyce: from the ‘Dead’ to when we ‘Wake’, Jean-Michel Rabaté; ‘Looking at the party with you’: Pivotal Moments in Katherine Mansfield’s Party Stories, Angela Smith; Virginia Woolf’s Idea of a Party, Bryony Randall; Proustian Peristalsis: Parties Before, During and After, David R. Ellison; ‘Ezra through the open door’: The Parties of Natalie Barney, Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach as Lesbian Modernist Cultural Production, Joanne Winning; ‘Indeed everybody did come’: Parties, Publicity and Intimacy in Gertrude Stein’s Plays, Alex Goody; The Interracial Party of Modernist Primitivism and the Black ‘After-Party’, Margo Natalie Crawford; The Party In Extremis in D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love, Margot Norris; Bohemian Retrospects: Ford Madox Ford, Post-War Memory and the Cabaret Theatre Club, Nathan Waddell; ‘Pleasure too often repeated’: Aldous Huxley’s Modernity, Morag Shiach