Solitude and Its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781349632602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 223 str.

Edward Engelberg; E. Engelberg

Opis

In this study of solitude in high modernist writing, Edward Engelberg explores the ways in which solitude functions thematically to shape meaning in literary works, as well as what solitude as a condition has contributed to the making of a trope.

Recenzje

'Engleberg's argument is so clearly made and persuasive that one must ask...why no one has made and developed this point before.' - Choice

Spis treści

Introduction Self Against Self: Toward Ambiguous Solitude in Modernist Fiction Robinson Crusoe : Discourse With Oneself and the Solitude of Place 'Soliloquy in Solitude': To the Lighthouse O Altitudo! O Solitudo! Exilic Solitude and the Ambiguous Ethics in The Magic Mountain Solitude of Questionable Freedom in Cartesian Antagonists: Sartre and Camus As They Lay Dying 'Rotting With Solitude': Endgame in Beckett's Trilogy Conclusion

O autorze

EDWARD ENGELBERG is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Brandeis University. Aside from numerous essays and reviews, he is the author of The Vast Design: Patterns in W. B. Yeats's Aesthethic (1964; revised second edition, 1988); The Symbolist Poem: The Development of the English Tradition (editor); The Unknown Distance: From Consciousness to Conscience, Goethe to Camus; and Elegiac Fictions: The Motif of the Unlived Life.