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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Incredible modernism-literature, trust and deception. Farnham, Surrey, [England] : Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013] (DLC) 2012045457 (OCoLC)823472872 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Attridge; Rod Rosenquist |
ISBN: | 9781409439554 1409439550 9781299407251 1299407250 |
OCLC Number: | 836848761 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | pt. 1. Reading and trust -- Modern proliferation, modernist trust/ Leonard Diepeveen -- Trusting personality: modernist memoir and its audience/ Rod Rosenquist -- Credulous readers: H.D. and psychic-research work/ Suzanne Hobson -- pt. 2. After sincerity -- Subterranean folkway blues: Ralph Ellison's mythology of deception/ Paul Sheehan -- Counterfeit masterpieces: Gide, Joyce and intertextual deception/ Scarlett Baron -- False bottoms: Wyndham Lewis's the revenge for love and the incredible real/ Paul Edwards -- pt. 3. Truth and narrative -- Ford Madox Ford, impressionism and trust in the good soldier/ Max Saunders -- Malone lies: veracity and morality in Malone dies/ Samuel Cross -- What I may or may not have done in the war: truth, genre and the war books controversy/ Jessica Weare -- pt. 4. Trust and society -- The trust and the mistrust: Ezra Pound in Italy/ Sean Pryor -- Wallace Stevens's "drastic community": credit, suretyship and the society of distrust/ Jason Puskar -- Episodic trust: self, society and sociology in a La recherche du temps perdu/ John Attridge -- Afterword: autoimmunity, trust and value/ Rod Rosenquist. |
Responsibility: | edited by John Attridge and Rod Rosenquist. |
Abstract:
Examining the importance of trust as an influence on a wide range of European and American modernists - including James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, H.D., Ford Madox Ford, Samuel Beckett.
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'The forms of trust that Incredible Modernism sketches - readerly, financial, social, scholarly - appear integral to our understanding of modern experience. The expansive range of this collection is noteworthy and Rosenquist's impressive afterword ties together many of the theories proposed in the essays ...' Times Literary Supplement Read more...
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- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Trust in literature.
- Fraud in literature.
- Modernism (Literature)
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
- American literature.
- English literature.