Duree as Einstein-In-The-Heart

ISBN-13: 9781032662336 / Twarda / 2024 / 192 str.

Candice Lee Kent

Opis

Durée as Einstein-In-The-Heart traces the trajectory of modernist interaction with Bergson and Einstein through the works of Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) and Mary Butts (1890 – 1937).  

Spis treści

PART I:  INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND           

 

INTRODUCTION      

BACKGROUND AND KEY CONCEPTS   

Bergson’s Philosophy of Durée         

Durée and Clock Time          

Einstein’s Theories of Relativity      

Methodology:  Reading Across Scientific and Literary Texts

           

PART II:  BERGSON

 

DURATIONAL NARRATIVE, BERGSON’S EPISTEMOLOGY OF SELF AND WOOLF’S THEORISATION OF TIME

Woolf’s Exposure to Bergson’s Ideas           

The Voyage Out (1915) and Night and Day (1919)

Jacob’s Room (1922)

DURÉE IN MARY BUTTS’S ‘ANGELE AU COUVENT’ (1923)

Mary Butts: Storm Goddess  

Butts’s Journal References to Bergson          

‘Angele au Couvent’ (1923)  

CLOCK TIME AND MODERNIST PARALYSIS  

Mrs Dalloway (1925)

Comparing Woolf and Butts 

 

PART III:  EINSTEIN

           

MARY BUTTS AND POPULAR SCIENCE           

MARY BUTTS AND J.W.N. SULLIVAN   

FROM BERGSON TO EINSTEIN   

THE NATURE OF SPACE IN DEATH OF FELICITY TAVERNER (1932)        

ARTHUR EDDINGTON AND SPACE-TIME        

SCIENTIFIC PORNOGRAPHY

           

PART IV:  CONCLUSION

           

BIBLIOGRAPHY      

PRIMARY     

SECONDARY           

O autorze

Candice Lee Kent is an independent scholar with a PhD in English from the University of Cambridge. Candice is also the author of a book chapter entitled ‘Science in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and Mary Butts’ in Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow: Literature’s Reflection of Science (Rodopi: Amsterdam, 2011).