Modernist Life Histories : : Biological Theory and The Experimental Bildungsroman / / Daniel Aureliano Newman.
Reflects contemporary paradigm shifts in embryology and evolutionary theory through formal experimentation in the modernist BildungsromanProvides a unique perspective on the Bildungsroman (novel of formation), one of the most discussed genres in recent scholarly work on modernismApproaches the study...
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors’ Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Bildung, Biology and the Narrative Structure of Development -- 2 A Portrait of the Artist as a ‘Biologist in Words’: Language, Epiphany and Atavistic Bildung -- 3 Mendelian Inheritance, ‘Eternal Differences’ and Entropy in Howards End -- 4 ‘Tampering with the Expected Sequence’: Heterochrony and Sex Change in Orlando -- 5 Anachrony, Neoteny and the ‘Education of an Amphibian’ in Eyeless in Gaza -- 6 Beginning Again: Darwin’s Caterpillar from George Eliot to Beckett -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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