This book is a study of writing processes of six modernist authors: Hopkins, Yeats, Conrad, Forster, Joyce, and Woolf, from the 'golden age of manuscripts'. Finn Fordham examines how these processes relate to selfhood and subjectivity, both of which...
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This book is a study of writing processes of six modernist authors: Hopkins, Yeats, Conrad, Forster, Joyce, and Woolf, from the 'golden age of manuscripts'. Finn Fordham examines how these processes relate to selfhood and subjectivity, both of which are generally considered to have come under an intense examination and reformulation during the modernist period. The study addresses several questions: what are the relations between writing and subjectivity? To what extent is a'self' considered as a completed product like a book? Or how are selves, if considered as things 'in process' or 'constru
Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: CRITICAL FRAMEWORKS; 1. Texts and Selves in Process: Writing between self and selflessness; 2. Modernism and the Self: Inside-Out; 3. The Self in Descartes and Heidegger: Overlooking Drafts, Erasing Process; PART II: GENETIC EXPLORATIONS; 4. Hopkins and Compression; 5. The Young Yeats and Selection; 6. Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness': Doubling and Doubling Back; 7. Forster's A Passage to India: Blurring and Hollowing Out; 8. Joyce's Ulysses and Multiplying Personalities; 9. Woolf 's The Waves and Writing Classes
