Materiality in modernist short fiction : : lived things / / Laura Oulanne.

"Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction provides a fresh approach to reading material things in modern fiction, accounting for the interplay of the material and the cultural. This volume investigates how Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys use the short story form to evoke the mate...

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Superior document:Among the Victorians and modernists
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Place / Publishing House:New York, New York ;, Abingdon, Oxon : : Routledge,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Among the Victorians and modernists.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 172 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Reading things, senses, and meanings
  • Intricate things on the page : the modernist short fiction of Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys
  • Powerful things
  • Ironical spirits and living mannequins : Jean Rhys, magic, and surrealism
  • Dolls, boots, and madames : Djuna Barnes rewrites fetishism
  • Lively things
  • Djuna Barnes's piled-up and entangled assemblages
  • Katherine Mansfield writing a nonhuman life
  • Touching things
  • Nice things : materiality and positive affect in Katherine Mansfield's and Jean Rhys's stories
  • The affective journeys of Djuna Barnes's and Katherine Mansfield's stories
  • Making sense of things
  • Masses and vividnesses : the aesthetics and ethics of The Left bank
  • At the indifferent bay : nonhuman perspectives and meaning in Katherine Mansfield's stories
  • Djuna Barnes's detail and the materiality of the symbolic
  • Conclusion: Reading affective materiality.