Modernist Impersonalities: Affect, Authority, and the Subject

ISBN-13: 9781137021878 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 219 str.

Rochelle Rives

Opis

This study reconsiders the meaning of 'impersonality, ' the term modernists such as T.S. Eliot, H.D., Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis explicitly employed in their critiques of 'personality, ' especially as it has been defined in classic works by critics such as Maud Ellmann, Daniel Albright, and Michael Levenson. Unbinding its connection to authority, Rochelle Rives argues that impersonality, as a response to the increasing prominence of 'personality' in twentieth-century political and aesthetic culture, might be understood instead as an exploration of affective engagement that spatially re-orients social and aesthetic hierarchies. In doing so, Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulat

Spis treści

Modernism and the 'Escape From Personality' 'The Dissociation of Personality:' Space and the Impersonal Ideal The Impersonal Contract: H.D. and the Limits of Poetic Authority A 'Peculiar Feeling of Intimacy:' D.H. Lawrence, Modernist Violence, and Impersonal Narrative Problem Space: Wyndham Lewis, Mary Butts, and the Impersonal Object A 'Solicitude for Things:' Elizabeth Bowen and the Bildungsroman Conclusion: Emotion after the Death of the Heart

O autorze

Rochelle Rives is an Assistant Professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.