Violence in Early Modernist Fiction: The Secret Agent, Tarr, and Woman in Love

ISBN-13: 9788323332329 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 128 str.

Izabela Curyllo-Klag

Opis

This study focuses on texts exploring human proclivity to violent behaviour. Building on the anthropological insights of Rene Girard, and on the premise that literature is a reflection of a cultural moment, Curyllo-Klag shows how early modernism registers symptoms of crisis which even the outbreak of World War I failed to resolve. Arranged in chronological order, the works of Conrad, Lewis and Lawrence reveal an unfolding pattern and form a triptych, indicative of the growing intensity of the epoch in which they were produced.