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  1. Illegitimate freedom
    informality in modernist literature, 1900-1940
    Author: Majumdar, Gaurav
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    Introduction: informality as illegitimate freedom -- "Intoxicated sense": humor and promiscuity in Woolf's To the lighthouse and Orlando -- Marking absence: Mansfield's feminine informality vs. Lockean liberalism -- Eliotic contempt -- Joyce's... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    Introduction: informality as illegitimate freedom -- "Intoxicated sense": humor and promiscuity in Woolf's To the lighthouse and Orlando -- Marking absence: Mansfield's feminine informality vs. Lockean liberalism -- Eliotic contempt -- Joyce's challenges to disgust --"Inverted hypocracy": Auden's informal pedagogy -- Conclusion: an openness to misreading: the risks of informality. "Illegitimate Freedom: Informality in Modernist Literature is the first study of informality in modernist literature. Differentiating informality from intimacy in its introduction, the book discusses the informal in relation with sensory experience, aesthetic presentation, ethical deliberation or action, and social attitudes within modernist works. It examines these works for particular nuances of the word "informality" in each of its chapters in the following thematic sequence: informality that offers promiscuity and humour as counters to self-absorption in works by Virginia Woolf; rebuttals to male priorities in liberalism through "feminine informality" in several short stories by Katherine Mansfield; contempt for colloquialism and intimacy, tinged with class-anxieties and crises of attitude, in T. S. Eliot's poetry; resistance to disgust in James Joyce's novels; and the fusion of irreverence, protest, and praise in W. H. Auden's writings before 1940. The book's conclusion considers the risks of informality through a discussion of what it calls "inverted dignity." The theoretical aspects of the book offer insights into Lockean liberalism, the ethical dimensions of what Hélène Cixous termed "feminine writing," relations of sublimity and domesticity, Sigmund Freud's arguments on humour and melancholia, and recent affect theory's-as well as Immanuel Kant's and Friedrich Nietzsche's-views on disgust, linking these with modernism. This wide range of engagement makes this study relevant for those interested in literary studies, critical theory, and philosophy"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780367444624; 9781032115481
    Series: Among the Victorians and modernists
    Subjects: Modernism (Literature); English literature; English literature; Social sciences
    Scope: ix, 169 Seiten
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Illegitimate freedom
    informality in modernist literature, 1900-1940
    Author: Majumdar, Gaurav
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    Introduction: informality as illegitimate freedom -- "Intoxicated sense": humor and promiscuity in Woolf's To the lighthouse and Orlando -- Marking absence: Mansfield's feminine informality vs. Lockean liberalism -- Eliotic contempt -- Joyce's... more

    Location:
    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    Signature:
    10 A 141218
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    Introduction: informality as illegitimate freedom -- "Intoxicated sense": humor and promiscuity in Woolf's To the lighthouse and Orlando -- Marking absence: Mansfield's feminine informality vs. Lockean liberalism -- Eliotic contempt -- Joyce's challenges to disgust --"Inverted hypocracy": Auden's informal pedagogy -- Conclusion: an openness to misreading: the risks of informality. "Illegitimate Freedom: Informality in Modernist Literature is the first study of informality in modernist literature. Differentiating informality from intimacy in its introduction, the book discusses the informal in relation with sensory experience, aesthetic presentation, ethical deliberation or action, and social attitudes within modernist works. It examines these works for particular nuances of the word "informality" in each of its chapters in the following thematic sequence: informality that offers promiscuity and humour as counters to self-absorption in works by Virginia Woolf; rebuttals to male priorities in liberalism through "feminine informality" in several short stories by Katherine Mansfield; contempt for colloquialism and intimacy, tinged with class-anxieties and crises of attitude, in T. S. Eliot's poetry; resistance to disgust in James Joyce's novels; and the fusion of irreverence, protest, and praise in W. H. Auden's writings before 1940. The book's conclusion considers the risks of informality through a discussion of what it calls "inverted dignity." The theoretical aspects of the book offer insights into Lockean liberalism, the ethical dimensions of what Hélène Cixous termed "feminine writing," relations of sublimity and domesticity, Sigmund Freud's arguments on humour and melancholia, and recent affect theory's-as well as Immanuel Kant's and Friedrich Nietzsche's-views on disgust, linking these with modernism. This wide range of engagement makes this study relevant for those interested in literary studies, critical theory, and philosophy"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780367444624; 9781032115481
    Series: Among the Victorians and modernists
    Subjects: Modernism (Literature); English literature; English literature; Social sciences
    Scope: ix, 169 Seiten
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index