Michael Sayeau (Lecturer, Department of English, University College
Against the Event: Everyday and Evolution of Modernist Narrative
Michael Sayeau (Lecturer, Department of English, University College
Against the Event: Everyday and Evolution of Modernist Narrative
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Against the Event presents both lucid readings of key modern texts as well as an intervention into some of the most pressing contemporary philosophical and theoretical debates.
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Against the Event presents both lucid readings of key modern texts as well as an intervention into some of the most pressing contemporary philosophical and theoretical debates.
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- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 272
- Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2013
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 458g
- ISBN-13: 9780199681259
- ISBN-10: 0199681252
- Artikelnr.: 37600873
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 272
- Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2013
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 458g
- ISBN-13: 9780199681259
- ISBN-10: 0199681252
- Artikelnr.: 37600873
Michael Sayeau is Lecturer of English at University College London.
* Chapter I. Introduction: In the Anteroom of the Event
* What is the Everyday?
* What is an Event
* Literature and the Event
* Anti-Evental Modernism
* The Emergence of Modernist Narrative
* Chapter II: 'The future was a dark corridor': Flaubert's Madame
Bovary, The Everyday, and Style
* 'As though in a grip of a ghastly terror'
* A Book About Nothing, an Exercise in Style
* The Nouveau and the Genre
* Emma's Everyday
* Skipping: An Aesthetics of Uneventful Existence
* Homais's Cross of Honor: Flaubert and History
* Chapter III: The 'Odd Consequence' of Progress: H.G. Wells's The Time
Machine and the Fin de Siècle Everyday
* The Catastrophic Status-Quo: Empire, Economics, and Sex at the End of
the Nineteenth Century
* A Universal Tendency to Dissipation: Overproduction and Heat Death
* 'After the Battle Comes the Quiet': Wells's Ambivalent Modernity
* 'My Story Slips Away from Me': The Narrative Impulse vs. Social
Stasis
* Everyday Apocalypse and the Morlocks ex Machina
* Chapter IV: 'His Occupation Would Be Gone': Unemployment and Time in
Conrad's Heart of Darkness
* The Invention of Unemployment: Conrad's Careers
* Marlow's Discourse and the Temporality of Work
* The 'Helpers': The Belgian Congo, Forced Labor, and the Posthuman
* Conrad's Unemployment, the Narrative Event, and Modernism
* Chapter V: Joyce's Anti-Epiphanies: The Atomic Form of Fiction
* The Manuscript Epiphanies of 1900-1903
* Dubliners: The Critique of Pure Epiphany
* Portrait and the Temporality of Impersonality
* Back to the Strand: 'Nausicaa'
* Modernism, the Everyday, and Auerbach's 'Very Simple Solution'
* Bibliography
* What is the Everyday?
* What is an Event
* Literature and the Event
* Anti-Evental Modernism
* The Emergence of Modernist Narrative
* Chapter II: 'The future was a dark corridor': Flaubert's Madame
Bovary, The Everyday, and Style
* 'As though in a grip of a ghastly terror'
* A Book About Nothing, an Exercise in Style
* The Nouveau and the Genre
* Emma's Everyday
* Skipping: An Aesthetics of Uneventful Existence
* Homais's Cross of Honor: Flaubert and History
* Chapter III: The 'Odd Consequence' of Progress: H.G. Wells's The Time
Machine and the Fin de Siècle Everyday
* The Catastrophic Status-Quo: Empire, Economics, and Sex at the End of
the Nineteenth Century
* A Universal Tendency to Dissipation: Overproduction and Heat Death
* 'After the Battle Comes the Quiet': Wells's Ambivalent Modernity
* 'My Story Slips Away from Me': The Narrative Impulse vs. Social
Stasis
* Everyday Apocalypse and the Morlocks ex Machina
* Chapter IV: 'His Occupation Would Be Gone': Unemployment and Time in
Conrad's Heart of Darkness
* The Invention of Unemployment: Conrad's Careers
* Marlow's Discourse and the Temporality of Work
* The 'Helpers': The Belgian Congo, Forced Labor, and the Posthuman
* Conrad's Unemployment, the Narrative Event, and Modernism
* Chapter V: Joyce's Anti-Epiphanies: The Atomic Form of Fiction
* The Manuscript Epiphanies of 1900-1903
* Dubliners: The Critique of Pure Epiphany
* Portrait and the Temporality of Impersonality
* Back to the Strand: 'Nausicaa'
* Modernism, the Everyday, and Auerbach's 'Very Simple Solution'
* Bibliography
* Chapter I. Introduction: In the Anteroom of the Event
* What is the Everyday?
* What is an Event
* Literature and the Event
* Anti-Evental Modernism
* The Emergence of Modernist Narrative
* Chapter II: 'The future was a dark corridor': Flaubert's Madame
Bovary, The Everyday, and Style
* 'As though in a grip of a ghastly terror'
* A Book About Nothing, an Exercise in Style
* The Nouveau and the Genre
* Emma's Everyday
* Skipping: An Aesthetics of Uneventful Existence
* Homais's Cross of Honor: Flaubert and History
* Chapter III: The 'Odd Consequence' of Progress: H.G. Wells's The Time
Machine and the Fin de Siècle Everyday
* The Catastrophic Status-Quo: Empire, Economics, and Sex at the End of
the Nineteenth Century
* A Universal Tendency to Dissipation: Overproduction and Heat Death
* 'After the Battle Comes the Quiet': Wells's Ambivalent Modernity
* 'My Story Slips Away from Me': The Narrative Impulse vs. Social
Stasis
* Everyday Apocalypse and the Morlocks ex Machina
* Chapter IV: 'His Occupation Would Be Gone': Unemployment and Time in
Conrad's Heart of Darkness
* The Invention of Unemployment: Conrad's Careers
* Marlow's Discourse and the Temporality of Work
* The 'Helpers': The Belgian Congo, Forced Labor, and the Posthuman
* Conrad's Unemployment, the Narrative Event, and Modernism
* Chapter V: Joyce's Anti-Epiphanies: The Atomic Form of Fiction
* The Manuscript Epiphanies of 1900-1903
* Dubliners: The Critique of Pure Epiphany
* Portrait and the Temporality of Impersonality
* Back to the Strand: 'Nausicaa'
* Modernism, the Everyday, and Auerbach's 'Very Simple Solution'
* Bibliography
* What is the Everyday?
* What is an Event
* Literature and the Event
* Anti-Evental Modernism
* The Emergence of Modernist Narrative
* Chapter II: 'The future was a dark corridor': Flaubert's Madame
Bovary, The Everyday, and Style
* 'As though in a grip of a ghastly terror'
* A Book About Nothing, an Exercise in Style
* The Nouveau and the Genre
* Emma's Everyday
* Skipping: An Aesthetics of Uneventful Existence
* Homais's Cross of Honor: Flaubert and History
* Chapter III: The 'Odd Consequence' of Progress: H.G. Wells's The Time
Machine and the Fin de Siècle Everyday
* The Catastrophic Status-Quo: Empire, Economics, and Sex at the End of
the Nineteenth Century
* A Universal Tendency to Dissipation: Overproduction and Heat Death
* 'After the Battle Comes the Quiet': Wells's Ambivalent Modernity
* 'My Story Slips Away from Me': The Narrative Impulse vs. Social
Stasis
* Everyday Apocalypse and the Morlocks ex Machina
* Chapter IV: 'His Occupation Would Be Gone': Unemployment and Time in
Conrad's Heart of Darkness
* The Invention of Unemployment: Conrad's Careers
* Marlow's Discourse and the Temporality of Work
* The 'Helpers': The Belgian Congo, Forced Labor, and the Posthuman
* Conrad's Unemployment, the Narrative Event, and Modernism
* Chapter V: Joyce's Anti-Epiphanies: The Atomic Form of Fiction
* The Manuscript Epiphanies of 1900-1903
* Dubliners: The Critique of Pure Epiphany
* Portrait and the Temporality of Impersonality
* Back to the Strand: 'Nausicaa'
* Modernism, the Everyday, and Auerbach's 'Very Simple Solution'
* Bibliography