The Uses of Obscurity

ISBN-13: 9781032645933 / Twarda / 2023 / 202 str.

Allon White

Opis

Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature and questions how we can begin to account for the forms of obscurity and difficulty which developed in the late 19^th Century and which became so important to modernism.

Recenzje

‘The outcome is a criticism which is pleasantly unpretentious, yet well able to handle sophisticated theory…’ Jeremy Lane, The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol 15.

‘White has given the reader abundant food and numerous directions for thought.’ Eugene Hollahan, Studies in the Novel, Vol 14, No. 3.

Spis treści

1. Obscurity and Enlightenment 2. Obscure Writing and Private Life, 1880-1914 3. Truth and Impurity 4. ‘Godiva’ to the Gossips: Meredith and the Language of Shame 5. Conrad and the Rhetoric of Enigma 6. ‘The Deterrent Fact’: Vulgarity and Obscurity in James.

O autorze

Allon White