ISBN: 9780521805896

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Cambridge University Press], In Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community, Jessica Berman claims that the fiction of Henry James, Marcel Prous… More...

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Cambridge University Press], In Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community, Jessica Berman claims that the fiction of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community and cosmopolitanism. Although these modernist writers develop radically different models for social organization, their writings return again and again to issues of commonality, shared voice, and exchange of experience, particularly in relation to dominant discourses of gender and nationality. The writings of James, Proust, Woolf, and Stein, she argues, not only inscribe early twentieth-century anxieties about race, ethnicity, nationality and gender, but confront them with demands for modern, cosmopolitan versions of community. This study seeks to revise theories of community and cosmopolitanism in light of their construction in narrative, and in particular it seeks to reveal the ways that modernist fiction can provide meaningful alternative models of community. Table of contents: Acknowledgments 1. Cosmopolitan communities 2. Henry James: i. 'The History of the Voice': Cosmopolitan's America ii. Feminizing the nation: woman as cultural icon in late James 3. Marcel Proust: i. Bernard Lazare and the politics of Pariahdom ii. The community, the prophet and the pariah in A la recherche du temps perdu 4. Virginia Woolf: i. 'Splinter' and 'Mosaic': towards the politics of connection ii. Of oceans and opposition: the action of The Waves 5. Gertrude Stein: i. Steinian topographies: the making of America ii. Writing the 'I' that is 'they': Gertrude Stein's community of the subject 6. Conclusion. In this book, Jessica Berman claims that modernist fiction engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community and cosmopolitanism. Although modernist writers develop radically different models for social organization, their writings return repeatedly to issues of commonality and shared voice, particularly in relation to dominant discourses of gender and nationality. Jessica Berman claims that modernist fiction engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community. 252 pages Versandfertig in 3-5 Tagen, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten)<

ISBN: 9780521805896

In this book, Jessica Berman claims that modernist fiction engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community and cosmopolitanism. Although modernist writers devel… More...

In this book, Jessica Berman claims that modernist fiction engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community and cosmopolitanism. Although modernist writers develop radically different models for social organization, their writings return again and again to issues of commonality and shared voice, particularly in relation to dominant discourses of gender and nationality. The writings of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein not only inscribe early twentieth-century anxieties about race, ethnicity, nationality and gender, but confront them with demands for modern, cosmopolitan versions of community. | Modernist Fiction Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community by Jessica Berman Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Jessica Berman<

2012, ISBN: 0521805899

Gebundene Ausgabe LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Cambridge University Press]

2001, ISBN: 9780521805896

Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Cambridge University Press], Cambridge University Press, 2001