Manya Lempert (University of Arizona)

Tragedy and the Modernist Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together the study of modern fiction, tragedy, chance, and the natural world. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers interested in British and European modernism, philosophy, science and literature, and classical reception studies. It will also interest scholars studying the novel or tragedy more generally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781108496025
• ISBN-10: 1108496024
• Artikelnr.: 59183259

Autorenporträt

Manya Lempert is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arizona. She specializes in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century novel, ancient and modern tragedy and philosophy, and theories of evolution.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: modernist tragedy
1.1 Attic novelists
1.2 Tragedy versus philosophy
1.3 Tragic nature
1.4 Modernism versus nihilism
1.5 Tragic sociality and overview of chapters
2. Hardy's theory of tragic character
2.1 Neo-Greek modernism
2.2 Hardy versus Plato and Aristotle
2.3 Two Tesses
2.4 Sue's reversals
2.5 Scapegoating
2.6 Nightmare skies
3. Woolf and Darwin: tragic time scales and chances
3.1 Immitigable trees
3.2 Darwinian Tuch¿
3.3 Jane Ellen Harrison's ritual
3.4 Gilbert Murray's tragedy
3.5 Friedrich Nietzsche's love of fate
3.6 Not 'Amor fati' but 'It is enough!'
3.7 Woolf's tragic chances
4. Camus's modernist forms and the ethics of tragedy
4.1 Camus's idea of tragedy
4.2 The moment in Camus and Woolf
4.3 Camus versus Sartre
4.4 Janine: a moment of being
4.5 Jacques and Jessica: tragic affirmation
4.6 The absurd Meursault
4.7 The 'good modern nihilist' Clamence
5. Beckett: against nihilism
5.1 The unnamable: 'alleviations of flight from self'
5.2 Losing species: from Mahood to worm
5.3 Beckett's Oedipus and Lispector's mystic
5.4 Nihilism and recoil from nihilism
5.5 Beckett's ancient philosophy
5.6 No counter-tragic calm
5.7 Company: 'That was I. That was I then.'
5.8 Palliative moments
Bibliography
Index.