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Unmaking love : the contemporary novel and the impossibility of union /

Author:
Ashley T. Shelden.
Publication info:
New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Format:
Book

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Scott Library

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PR 888 L69 S457 2017 		Due: Jan 14, 2019

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Subjects

Subject:
English fiction » 20th century » History and criticism.
Subject:
English fiction » 21st century » History and criticism.
Subject:
Love in literature.
Subject:
Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
Subject:
Modernism (Literature) » Great Britain.
Subject:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

More Details

Title:
Unmaking love : the contemporary novel and the impossibility of union / Ashley T. Shelden.
Main Author:
Shelden, Ashley T.,
Language:
English
Published:
Columbia University Press, 2017
Series:
Portion of Title:
Contemporary novel and the impossibility of union
Summary:
"The author examines how the romantic conception of love has been critiqued, destroyed, and reoriented in modernist and contemporary novels" --
Physical Description:
xi, 186 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780231178228
0231178220
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.