Mannerist Fiction : : Pathologies of Space from Rabelais to Pynchon / / William Donoghue.

In Mannerist Fiction, William Donoghue re-conceptualizes the history of formalism in western literature. Rather than presuming that literary experimentation with form - distorting space and time - began in the twentieth century with Modernism, Donoghue identifies the age of Copernicus as the crucibl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Rabelais and Mannerism
  • 2. Swift and Commensuratio
  • 3. Narcissism: Jonson and the Disfigured Self
  • 4. Sade and the Deformed Body
  • 5. Hysteria: Pynchon's Cartoon Space
  • 6. Modernism and Mannerism
  • 7. Space and Time for the Ancients
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index