Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature
Horizons anglophonesÉditeur : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Lieu d’édition : Montpellier
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 10 octobre 2023
Collection : Horizons anglophones
Année d’édition : 2010
Nombre de pages : 304
Présentation
This collection of essays means to explore the interaction between autonomy and commitment in an attempt at revisiting and possibly, revising conventional literary history. Until recently, literary history has indeed tended to present twentieth century British literature as either autonomous or committed, but such a position certainly needs qualification. By addressing the joint issues of autonomy and commitment and basing their arguments on such theoretical writings as those of Adorno, Benjamin, Jameson, Rancière or Attridge, the essays presented here come to question the canonical definitions of modernism as experimental literature, the literature of the 1940s and 1950s as committed and post-modern fiction as self-reflexive and autonomous. Through reflections on experimentation and ideology, narcissism and metafiction, aestheticism and militancy, abstraction and ethical involvement, they flesh out the very definitions of autonomy and commitment, confront the two notions and relentlessly test their interaction, thus bringing out the complexities and subtleties of the various moments and movements that make up the literary landscape of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.
Sommaire
Christine Reynier et Jean-Michel Ganteau
IntroductionJean-Jacques Lecercle
Autonomy Versus Commitment: Eliot, Adorno, Bakhtin and Foreign WordsGulshan R. Taneja
Privilege and Allegiance in Literature: Joyce the SatiristElena Gualtieri
Ezra Pound: Fascist Modernism as Committed Literature?Margaret Gillespie
Autonomy and Commitment and the Woman Modernist: The Example of Mina LoyAnne Besnault-Levita
Criticism, New Criticism and Virginia Woolf’s Critical CommitmentChristine Reynier
Autonomy as Commitment in Virginia Woolf’s Short StoriesMichel Morel
The Modernists’ Commitment to the Instant MomentAude Ferrand
Commitment and the Still Centre: Rosamond Lehmann’s Political and Literary War WritingsPascale Tollance
‘How Can I Be Escaping From Myself When I Am Without a Place On Earth?’: Autonomy and Commitment in Malcolm Lowry’s Under The VolcanoBen Winsworth
Existential Psychodynamics in John Fowles’s The MagusJean-Michel Ganteau
In Thy Autonomy Is Thy Commitment: Brigid Brophy’s In TransitEileen Williams-Wanquet
Committed Autonomy: Emma Tennant’s Faustine and Two Women of LondonJakob Winnberg
‘Don’t join the dots...’: Reading the Interplay of Autonomy and Commitment in Martin Amis’s Time’s ArrowSabine Requier-Ulrich
Pullman’s His Dark Material, a Paradoxical Equilibrium between Responsibility and AutonomyDavid Nowell Smith
James Kelman and the Politics of the VoiceLaurent Mellet
Zadie Smith’s Autonomous Writing Commitments to E.M. ForsterJulie Morère
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