Heralds of the Postmodern: Madness and Fiction in Conrad, Woolf, and Lessing Contributor(s): Rudnick, Hans H. (Editor), Yuan-Jung Cheng (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820433764 ISBN-13: 9780820433769 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Binding Type: Hardcover Published: April 1999 Click for more in this series: Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Philosophy |
Dewey: 823.910 |
LCCN: 96024033 |
Series: Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory |
Physical Information: 120 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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Publisher Description: "Heralds of the Postmodern" inquires into the possibility of a poetics of madness in "Heart of Darkness, Mrs. Dalloway," and "The Golden Notebook." By relating the literary expression of the irrational in these works to the philosophical attempt to overcome the subject and rationality in the writings of Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida, the book presents modern fiction as an arena in which struggles between reason and madness, limitation and transgression, -self- and -the other- are fully displayed. It investigates how modern literature subverts traditional metaphysics by exploring the realm of the other reason and the new forms of subjectivity." |
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