Proust, Mann, Joyce in the modernist contextGerald Gillespie.

Gillespie, Gerald Ernest Paul, 1933-

Proust, Mann, Joyce in the modernist contextGerald Gillespie. - second edition. - Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (xiii, 375 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : a stroll in the labyrinth -- Modernist moments and spaces. The space of truth and cathedral window light ; Epiphany : applicability of a modernist term ; The place of fin-de-siècle nature ; Prime coordinates in modernist cultural mappings ; Ironic realism and the foundational romance ; Cinematic narration in the modernist novel ; City of wo/man : labyrinth, wilderness, garden -- Metamorphosis, play, and the laws of life. Afterthoughts of Hamlet : Goethe's Wilhelm, Joyce's Stephen ; Educational experiment in Thomas Mann ; The music of things and the hieroglyphics of family talk in Joyce's fictions ; The ways of Hermes in the works of Thomas Mann ; Harrowing Hell with Proust, Joyce, and Mann ; The haunted narrator before the gate (Joyce, Kafka, Hesse, Butor) ; Structures of the self and narrative ; Palimpsest, essay : history, myth ; By way of conclusion : the artifice of eternity.



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Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 --Criticism and interpretation.
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 --Criticism and interpretation.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 --Criticism and interpretation.


European fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
European fiction--History and criticism.--20th century


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