Troubling Late Modernism: Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form by Doug Battersby

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Discusses how modernist techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires have been reinvented by some of the most influential and innovative writers of the postwar period, including Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, John Banville, J. M. Coetzee, and Eimear McBride.

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modernist writers developed new techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires that revolutionized the novel form--a revolution novelists and critics are still reckoning with today. Troubling Late Modernism tracks how those techniques have been perversely reinvented by some of the most influential and innovative writers of the postwar period. Chapters on Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, John Banville, J. M. Coetzee, and Eimear McBride reveal how these writers at once exploit and extend modernist forms of narration to cultivate disquieting affective attachments to protagonists compelled by violent or exploitative sexual desires. By interrogating the expressive power and ethical liabilities of modes of writing that give us intimate access to characters' inner lives, late modernism poses fundamental philosophical questions about emotion and its inseparability from knowledge and ethical deliberation. Whilst other historians of the novel have characterized late modernism's formal innovations as ethically and politically edifying, Troubling Late Modernism highlights their more disquieting potential for lending sympathy and profundity to sentiments deemed inadmissible in our everyday lives.Charting late modernism's characteristic fusion of aesthetic difficulty with emotional and ethical provocation demands an approach attuned to the experience of reading these disturbingly erotic narratives. In dialogue with recent debates about critical method, Troubling Late Modernism presents a new way of closely reading prose fiction that brings together the lessons of formalism and affect theory.

Author Biography

Doug Battersby is a Marie Skodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Bristol and Stanford University. After studying at the University of Leeds, University College London, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of York, he took up a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Tokyo and then a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on the theory and history of the novel in English.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Vladimir Nabokov's Unbearable Intimacy2. Samuel Beckett's Conflicted Feelings3. Toni Morrison's Ethics of Attention4. John Banville's Performance of Passion5. J. M. Coetzee's Hidden Heart6. Eimear McBride's Bodily FormsConclusion

Review

[A] rich and subtle account of the dynamics between author, text and critic. * Dominic Dean, Textual Practice *

Long Description

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modernist writers developed new techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires that revolutionized the novel form--a revolution novelists and critics are still reckoning with today. Troubling Late Modernism tracks how those techniques have been perversely reinvented by some of the most influential and innovative writers of the postwar period. Chapters on Vladimir Nabokov, SamuelBeckett, Toni Morrison, John Banville, J. M. Coetzee, and Eimear McBride reveal how these writers at once exploit and extend modernist forms of narration to cultivate disquieting affective attachments to protagonists compelled by violent or exploitative sexual desires. By interrogating the expressive power andethical liabilities of modes of writing that give us intimate access to characters' inner lives, late modernism poses fundamental philosophical questions about emotion and its inseparability from knowledge and ethical deliberation. Whilst other historians of the novel have characterized late modernism's formal innovations as ethically and politically edifying, Troubling Late Modernism highlights their more disquieting potential for lending sympathy and profundity to sentiments deemedinadmissible in our everyday lives. Charting late modernism's characteristic fusion of aesthetic difficulty with emotional and ethical provocation demands an approach attuned to the experience of reading these disturbingly erotic narratives. In dialogue with recent debates about critical method, Troubling Late Modernism presents a new way of closely reading prose fiction that brings together the lessons of formalism and affect theory.

Details ISBN0192863339 Author Doug Battersby Publisher Oxford University Press Year 2022 ISBN-10 0192863339 ISBN-13 9780192863331 Format Hardcover Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2022-10-27 NZ Release Date 2022-10-27 Subtitle Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form Pages 320 Publication Date 2022-10-27 UK Release Date 2022-10-27 Edited by Benjamin S. Yost Birth 1797 Death 1851 Affiliation Professor of Philosophy, Adjunct, Cornell University Position Professor of Philosophy, Adjunct Qualifications Ph.D. DEWEY 809.304 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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