Incredible Modernism: Literature, Trust and Deception

ISBN-13: 9781138271678 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 258 str.

John Attridge; Rod Rosenquist

Opis

Examining the importance of trust as an influence on a wide range of European and American modernists ” including James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, H.D., Ford Madox Ford, Samuel Beckett, Ralph Ellison and Wallace Stevens ” this collection shows that the concept underwent a violent set of transformations at the turn of the twentieth century. The contributors take up a diverse set of topics related to reception, the institutions of modernism, history of authorship, representation, authenticity, genre and politics.

Recenzje

'The forms of trust that Incredible Modernism sketches - readerly, financial, social, scholarly - appear integral to our understanding of modern experience. The expansive range of this collection is noteworthy and Rosenquist's impressive afterword ties together many of the theories proposed in the essays ...' Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Introduction: Modernism, Trust and Deception, John Attridge; Part 1 Reading and Trust; Chapter 1 Modern Proliferation, Modernist Trust, Leonard Diepeveen; Chapter 2 Trusting Personality: Modernist Memoir and its Audience, Rod Rosenquist; Chapter 3 Credulous Readers: H.D. and Psychic-Research Work, Suzanne Hobson; Part 2 After Sincerity; Chapter 4 Subterranean Folkway Blues: Ralph Ellison’s Mythology of Deception, Paul Sheehan; Chapter 5 Counterfeit Masterpieces: Gide, Joyce and Intertextual Deception, Scarlett Baron; Chapter 6 False Bottoms: Wyndham Lewis’s The Revenge for Love and the Incredible Real, Paul Edwards; Part 3 Truth and Narrative; Chapter 7 Ford Madox Ford, Impressionism and Trust in The Good Soldier, Max Saunders; Chapter 8 Malone Lies: Veracity and Morality in Malone Dies, Samuel Cross; Chapter 9 What I May or May Not Have Done in the War: Truth, Genre and the War Books Controversy, Jessica Weare; Part 4 Trust and Society; Chapter 10 The Trust and the Mistrust: Ezra Pound in Italy, Sean Pryor; Chapter 11 Wallace Stevens’s ‘Drastic Community’: Credit, Suretyship and the Society of Distrust, Jason Puskar; Chapter 12 Episodic Trust: Self, Society and Sociology in A la recherche du temps perdu, John Attridge; S01 Afterword: Autoimmunity, Trust and Value;

O autorze

John Attridge is Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and Rod Rosenquist is Lecturer in English at the University of Portsmouth, UK.