Modernist short fiction and things 1st ed.

Author

• Gasston, Aimée

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030785444

Series

Material modernisms

Subject(s)

• LITERATURE, MODERN-20TH CENTURY
• LITERATURE-PHILOSOPHY

Notes

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Abstract

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.

'​It offers a suggestive analysis of the ways in which three modernist writers mobilise the thing-like quality of the short story form for an exploration of the uncanniness of the object world. The close readings of Woolf, Mansfield and Bowen are inventive, thoughtful and perceptive.’

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xiv, 227 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

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.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00957/21	800 Gas M	Online !	Available