Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature
This collection of essays means to explore the interaction between autonomy and commitment in an attempt at revisiting and possibly, revising conventional literary history. Until recently, literary history has indeed tended to present twentieth century British literature as either autonomous or comm...
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2023
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| description | This collection of essays means to explore the interaction between autonomy and commitment in an attempt at revisiting and possibly, revising conventional literary history. Until recently, literary history has indeed tended to present twentieth century British literature as either autonomous or committed, but such a position certainly needs qualification. By addressing the joint issues of autonomy and commitment and basing their arguments on such theoretical writings as those of Adorno, Benjamin, Jameson, Rancière or Attridge, the essays presented here come to question the canonical definitions of modernism as experimental literature, the literature of the 1940s and 1950s as committed and post-modern fiction as self-reflexive and autonomous. Through reflections on experimentation and ideology, narcissism and metafiction, aestheticism and militancy, abstraction and ethical involvement, they flesh out the very definitions of autonomy and commitment, confront the two notions and relentlessly test their interaction, thus bringing out the complexities and subtleties of the various moments and movements that make up the literary landscape of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1314342024-03-27T16:34:47Z Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature Ganteau, Jean-Michel Reynier, Christine poetry modernism fiction postmodernism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general This collection of essays means to explore the interaction between autonomy and commitment in an attempt at revisiting and possibly, revising conventional literary history. Until recently, literary history has indeed tended to present twentieth century British literature as either autonomous or committed, but such a position certainly needs qualification. By addressing the joint issues of autonomy and commitment and basing their arguments on such theoretical writings as those of Adorno, Benjamin, Jameson, Rancière or Attridge, the essays presented here come to question the canonical definitions of modernism as experimental literature, the literature of the 1940s and 1950s as committed and post-modern fiction as self-reflexive and autonomous. Through reflections on experimentation and ideology, narcissism and metafiction, aestheticism and militancy, abstraction and ethical involvement, they flesh out the very definitions of autonomy and commitment, confront the two notions and relentlessly test their interaction, thus bringing out the complexities and subtleties of the various moments and movements that make up the literary landscape of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. 2023-12-06T09:30:52Z 2023-12-06T09:30:52Z 2010 book ONIX_20231206_9782367814094_39 9782367814094 9782842698904 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/131434 eng Horizons anglophones image/jpeg n/a https://www.7switch.com/fr/ebook/9782367814094/from/openedition https://books.openedition.org/pulm/14418 Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée 10.4000/books.pulm.14418 10.4000/books.pulm.14418 17962280-e27b-4c2a-810d-e0321925cbfc 9782367814094 9782842698904 304 Montpellier open access |
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| title | Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature |
| title_full | Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature |
| title_fullStr | Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature |
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| title_short | Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature |
| title_sort | autonomy and commitment in twentieth century british literature |
| topic | poetry modernism fiction postmodernism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general |
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