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Solitude and its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction
Engelsk Paperback
Solitude and its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction
Engelsk Paperback

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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. Selected novels are analyzed for the ambiguities that solitude injects into their meanings. The freedom of solitude also becomes a burden from which the protagonists seek liberation. Although such ambiguities about solitude exist from the Bible and the Ancients through the centuries following, they change within the context of time. The story of solitude in the twentieth century moves from the self''s removal from society and retreat into nature to an extra-social position within which the self confronts itself. A chapter is devoted to the synoptic analysis of solitude in the West, with emphasis on the Renaissance to the twentieth century, and another chapter analyzes the ambiguities that set the stage for modernism: Defoe''s Robinson Crusoe. Selected works by Woolf, Mann, Camus, Sartre, and Beckett highlight particular modernist issues of solitude and how their authors sought to resolve them.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
223
ISBN-13:
9781349632602
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1349632600
Udg. Dato:
8 aug 2001
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
140mm
Højde:
216mm
Forlag:
Palgrave Macmillan
Oplagsdato:
8 aug 2001
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