Candice Lee Kent

Durée as Einstein-in-the-Heart (eBook, ePUB)

Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Durée as Einstein-In-The-Heart traces the trajectory of modernist interaction with Bergson and Einstein through the works of Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) and Mary Butts (1890 - 1937).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003860693
• Artikelnr.: 69942709

Autorenporträt

Candice Lee Kent is an independent scholar with a PhD in English from the University of Cambridge. Candice is also the author of a book chapter entitled 'Science in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and Mary Butts' in Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow: Literature's Reflection of Science (Rodopi: Amsterdam, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND AND KEY CONCEPTS
Bergson's Philosophy of Durée
Durée and Clock Time
Einstein's Theories of Relativity
Methodology: Reading Across Scientific and Literary Texts
PART II: BERGSON
DURATIONAL NARRATIVE, BERGSON'S EPISTEMOLOGY OF SELF AND WOOLF'S
THEORISATION OF TIME
Woolf's Exposure to Bergson's Ideas
The Voyage Out (1915) and Night and Day (1919)
Jacob's Room (1922)
DURÉE IN MARY BUTTS'S 'ANGELE AU COUVENT' (1923)
Mary Butts: Storm Goddess
Butts's Journal References to Bergson
'Angele au Couvent' (1923)
CLOCK TIME AND MODERNIST PARALYSIS
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Comparing Woolf and Butts
PART III: EINSTEIN
MARY BUTTS AND POPULAR SCIENCE
MARY BUTTS AND J.W.N. SULLIVAN
FROM BERGSON TO EINSTEIN
THE NATURE OF SPACE IN DEATH OF FELICITY TAVERNER (1932)
ARTHUR EDDINGTON AND SPACE-TIME
SCIENTIFIC PORNOGRAPHY
PART IV: CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PRIMARY
SECONDARY