Unmaking love : the contemporary novel and the impossibility of union /
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- New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
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- Title:
- Unmaking love : the contemporary novel and the impossibility of union / Ashley T. Shelden.
- Main Author:
- Shelden, Ashley T.,
- Language:
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English
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Columbia University Press, 2017
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- Contemporary novel and the impossibility of union
- Summary:
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"The author examines how the romantic conception of love has been critiqued, destroyed, and reoriented in modernist and contemporary novels" --
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xi, 186 pages ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
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97802311782280231178220
- Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Table of Contents
- Introduction: unmaking love
- Lesbian fantasy: psychoanalysis, the legacy of modernist love, and Djuna Barnes' Nightwood
- The ends of love: amorous redemption, the passion for negativity, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Hanif Kureishi's intimacy
- Amorous time: nostalgia, temporality, and the pursuit of optimism in Alan Hollinghurst's The line of beauty
- Cosmopolitan love: encountering difference in Hari Kunzru's Transmission and Kazuo Ishiguro's The unconsoled
- Conclusion: "any generic airport thriller": otherness, Cloud atlas, and contemporary literature.