Solitude and its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction

AvE. Engelberg

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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In this study of solitude in high modernist writing, Edward Engelberg explores the ways in which solitude functions thematically to shape meaning in literary works, as well as what solitude as a condition has contributed to the making of a trope.

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Utgivningsdatum:2001-08-08
Mått:140 x 216 x 13 mm
Vikt:303 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:223
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349632602

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EDWARD ENGELBERG is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Brandeis University. Aside from numerous essays and reviews, he is the author of The Vast Design: Patterns in W. B. Yeats's Aesthethic (1964; revised second edition, 1988); The Symbolist Poem: The Development of the English Tradition (editor); The Unknown Distance: From Consciousness to Conscience, Goethe to Camus; and Elegiac Fictions: The Motif of the Unlived Life.

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'Engleberg's argument is so clearly made and persuasive that one must ask...why no one has made and developed this point before.' - Choice

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Self Against Self: Toward Ambiguous Solitude in Modernist Fiction Robinson Crusoe : Discourse With Oneself and the Solitude of Place 'Soliloquy in Solitude': To the Lighthouse O Altitudo! O Solitudo! Exilic Solitude and the Ambiguous Ethics in The Magic Mountain Solitude of Questionable Freedom in Cartesian Antagonists: Sartre and Camus As They Lay Dying 'Rotting With Solitude': Endgame in Beckett's Trilogy Conclusion