Modernist Short Fiction and Things
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2021
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1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-78543-7 (ISBN)
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-78543-7 (ISBN)
This book reappraises the philosophical value of short fiction by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen, examining the stories through the lens of specific everyday objects. Looking at Woolf and armchairs, Mansfield and snack food, and Bowen and fashion accessories, it probes the aesthetic resonance between these stories' form and contents and also considers the modes of thinking they might promote.
Conceiving of their short fiction as intrinsically radical and experimental even within a wider context of modernist innovation, this book shows how these important women writers brought quotidian objects to riotous life, in such a way that tasked readers with reevaluating their everyday existence. Overall, Modernist Short Fiction and Things argues that short fiction epitomises modernist aesthetics, functioning as a resonant source for investigation and complementing and expanding our understanding of modernist epistemology.
Conceiving of their short fiction as intrinsically radical and experimental even within a wider context of modernist innovation, this book shows how these important women writers brought quotidian objects to riotous life, in such a way that tasked readers with reevaluating their everyday existence. Overall, Modernist Short Fiction and Things argues that short fiction epitomises modernist aesthetics, functioning as a resonant source for investigation and complementing and expanding our understanding of modernist epistemology.
Aimée Gasston has studied and worked at Birkbeck, University of London, and has held editorial roles at Katherine Mansfield Studies. In 2014, she was winner of the Katherine Mansfield Essay Prize and in 2018 was a Harry Ransom Visiting Research Fellow. She is currently Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Vice-Chair of the Elizabeth Bowen Society.
Introduction.- Chapter 1: Virginia Woolf's Armchair Aesthetics.- Chapter 2: Katherine Mansfield and the Story-as-Snack.- Chapter 3: Elizabeth Bowen and Eccentric Accessories.- Conclusion: Stories and their Objects, Reading and Being.
Erscheinungsdatum | 12.08.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Material Modernisms |
Zusatzinfo | XIV, 227 p. 12 illus. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 447 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Elizabeth Bowen • Katherine Mansfield • Literature and Cultural Studies • Materialism • modernism • Modernist short fiction • Neil MacGregor • objects • short fiction • Short Story • 'short things' • Virginia Woolf |
ISBN-10 | 3-030-78543-2 / 3030785432 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-78543-7 / 9783030785437 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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