Against The Event: Everyday And Evolution Of Modernist Narrative
by Michael Sayeau /
2013 / English / PDF
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Against the Event: The Everyday and the Evolution of Modernist
Narrative
Against the Event: The Everyday and the Evolution of Modernist
Narrative investigates how a modernity famed for temporal
acceleration - from Benjamin's 'shock' and 'distraction' to the
postmodern loss of historical consciousness diagnosed by Jameson -
generated fictions defined, strangely enough, not just by the 'new'
but just as forcefully by everyday depletions of stasis and
repetition, a flood of sameness in modern life. With close
attention to the novels of Flaubert, Wells, Conrad, and Joyce,
investigates how a modernity famed for temporal
acceleration - from Benjamin's 'shock' and 'distraction' to the
postmodern loss of historical consciousness diagnosed by Jameson -
generated fictions defined, strangely enough, not just by the 'new'
but just as forcefully by everyday depletions of stasis and
repetition, a flood of sameness in modern life. With close
attention to the novels of Flaubert, Wells, Conrad, and Joyce,Against the Event
Against the Event relates this aspect of modernity to
modernist and proto-modernist problems of narrative form, in
particular the banalizing effects of genre, the threatening
necessity of closure, and the obsolescence of the coherent
narrator. In doing so,
relates this aspect of modernity to
modernist and proto-modernist problems of narrative form, in
particular the banalizing effects of genre, the threatening
necessity of closure, and the obsolescence of the coherent
narrator. In doing so,Against the Event
Against the Event is also an
intervention into one of the pressing philosophical and theoretical
issues of our time, that of the nature of the 'event.'
is also an
intervention into one of the pressing philosophical and theoretical
issues of our time, that of the nature of the 'event.'
