Thinking in Literature: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov

Anthony Uhlmann is Associate Professor in Humanities and Languages, and a member of the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Beckett and Poststructuralism (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and co-editor of The Ethics of Arnold Geulincx (Brill, 2006). He is chief editor of The Journal of Beckett Studies.

"Anthony Uhlmann offers an impressively original and compelling series of interpretations that will substantially alter accepted ideas not only of Joyce, Woolf and Nabokov, but also of the epistemology and aesthetics of modernism. Uhlmann's Deleuzian approach—post-expressionist and post-representationalist—seeks to move beyond the traditional conception of modernism as an "inward turn" centered in subjectivity and interiority. Thinking in Literature accomplishes its highly innovative readings with subtlety, intelligence and insight." --  Richard Begam, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

• Introduction Part 1: Literature and Thought 1. Spinoza and Relation 2. Leibniz's 'perception': the Incompossible, the Viewpoint, and the Composition of Sensation 3. Composition as the Externalised Expression of Sensation Part 2: Thought in Modernist Fiction 4. James Joyce: the art of Relation 5. Virginia Woolf: the art of Sensation 6. Vladimir Nabokov: the art of Composition Conclusion Bibliography