Unknowing : : The Work of Modernist Fiction /

Unknowing : : The Work of Modernist Fiction / / Philip Weinstein.

Philip Weinstein explores the modernist commitment to "unknowing" by addressing the work of three supreme experimental writers: Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and William Faulkner. In their novels, the narrative props that support the drama of coming to know are refused. When space turns unca...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Weinstein, Philip,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2005
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Leaping: Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
  • Part One. Knowing: "Sapere Aude!" - The West Dares to Know
  • 2. Genealogy of Realism: An Enlightenment Narrative in Five Stages
  • 3. Anatomy of Realism: Coming to Know, from Defoe to Dostoevsky
  • Part Two. Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction
  • 4. Plotting Modernism: Freud
  • 5. Uncanny Space: Flaubert to Beckett
  • 6. Unbound Time: Proust, Kafka, Faulkner
  • 7. Subject and/as Other: Kafka, Proust, Faulkner
  • Part Three. Beyond Knowing: Postmodern and Postcolonial Flight m Gravity
  • 8. Adventures in Hyperspace
  • 9. Urban Nightmare and City Dreams: Rilke and Calvino
  • 10. Passage and Passing: Forster and Rushdie
  • 11. Arrest and Release: Faulkner, Garcia Marquez, Morrison
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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